Word: senatore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Smoot: "They are not protests from foreign governments but from interested parties. . . . Take England. The West Riding Chamber of Commerce protests against the duty on wool. What a pity the increase of three cents a pound on scoured wool should be imposed on the riding breeches used by members...
Senator Harrison: "Senator Smoot's inconsistencies ... a sham and a pretense. ... As a matter of fact . . . Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Norway, Greece, Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland, Persia, Uruguay, Mexico and Honduras protested as governments. . . . Those protests are general and significant in character. . . ."
At the White House. President Hoover called Senators Watson and Reed to the White House. When they returned to the Capitol, they were asked to explain the Presidents' tariff position. Senator Watson spoke with assurance of a "sane and sensible" tariff revision, of a "yardstick of adequate protection." Promptly...
"The real fighting will be done by Senator Reed of Pennsylvania.
To foreign parts last year went 515,000 U. S.-built motor cars. To the U. S. came 566 foreign-made cars. To Washington last week went Alvan Macauley, president of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce and of Packard Motor Co., Alfred P. Sloan Jr., president of General Motors...