Word: smoot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chairman Reed Smoot of the Senate Finance Committee and Secretary Mellon of the Treasury engaged last week in a solemn exchange of letters-for-publication. Senator Smoot suggested, Secretary Mellon agreed, that it might be wise to "delay" action of the Revenue Act of 1928 until after March 15, when the 1927 income tax returns will be available...
...week was rounded off with a leisurely, over-Saturday-and-Sunday-night Potomac river cruise on the yacht Mayflower. Distinguished super cargo included Senators Curtis of Kansas, Oddie of Nevada, Ashurst of Arizona and tall, clever Smoot of Utah; also Assistant Secretary of War Hanford MacNider and Mrs. MacNider, Commissioner R. K. Smith of the Shipping Board, and Mrs. Smith...
...Republican party was genuinely "stunned" but it soon recovered poise. Mark Sullivan, dean of Washington observers, pictured the G. O. P. proper as a body of hard-working politicians like Senators Smoot, Willis and David A. Reed, Secretary Mellon, Vice President Dawes, Frank O. Lowden, Nicholas Longworth ? men among whom Calvin Coolidge is, by temperament and tradition, a virtual stranger. These men, thought Mr. Sullivan, would be sorry to lose so good a vote-getter as Calvin Coolidge but ? personal ambitions quite aside ? they would not seek to nominate him now because that would be "the sort...
Last week, for instance, Senator Byron Patton Harrison of Mississippi announced that taxes should be reduced by no less than $500,000,000. Democrat Harrison is a member of the Senate Finance Committee and so, in a position to make his views felt. Meanwhile Republican Senator Reed Smoot, Chairman of the Finance Committee, said that a reduction of more than $300,000,000 would be unsafe. Both Senators Harrison and Smoot agreed on one point-the desirability of calling a special session of Congress in October. Some weeks ago Senator Smoot visited President Coolidge (then in Washington) and announced that...
...waters began to recede, the suggestion was made that Congress should call a special session to consider flood relief. This idea apparently did not,appeal to the President and inasmuch as only the President could put it into effect, prospects for a special session seemed remote. Last week Senators Smoot and Harrison (see TAXATION) joined in a special session call, but the Utah senator seemed primarily and the Mississippi senator considerably interested in the matter of tax reduction rather than in the matter of flood relief. With Mr. Coolidge, as far as is known, still opposed to a special session...