Word: smoot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charles D. Madsen, Chairman, and Louise Handcock; H. P. Beck and Anne Holland; O. S. Loud and Faith Stone; J. M. Poole and Martha Ingalls; H. M. Smoot and Ruthven Parker; H. M. Washburn and Ethelyn Urann...
...tariff has always been a political megaphone in senatorial hands and Senator McMaster's outcry started a bedlam of home-papers-please-copy oratory which lasted all week. Chairman Smoot of the Senate Finance Committee droned along for four hours...
...During Senator Smoot's speech, a young man in the gallery became hysterical and screamed: "Stop this cold-blooded murder!" He was hustled out, sent to a hospital for observation...
...longer the new tax rates remain unknown, the longer must business be restless. Washington wiseacres interpreted the Smoot-Mellon "delay" as an adroit political shift by the Administration to chastise those business groups (notably the U. S. Chamber of Commerce) which have been urging a far larger tax cut than Secretary Mellon thinks safe. It was also interpreted as a move to put anti-Administration senators on the defensive for the action of their colleagues in the House, who wrote a tax-cut 65 millions larger than the Treasury advised...
Actually, the Smoot-Mellon "delay" was mostly paper work. What with hearings, debates, compromises, the Senate would not get into action on the tax bill much before March 15 anyway...