Word: smoot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Smoot, as well as Frank W. Mondell of the War Finance Corporation, called at the White House. Topic of discussions : "Plans for next year's tax reduction...
Apostle Reed Smoot of the Mormon Church was passed by. Recently, First Counsellor Charles W. Penrose of the Church died. The place was filled...
Bishop Charles W. Nibley, multimillionaire, the wealthiest Mormon in the world. It had been anticipated that Rudger Clawson, President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, might be made Counsellor. In that event, Reed Smoot, ranking Apostle, would have been made President of the Quorum, would thus have been in direct line to the succession as President of the Mormon Church. But the spiritual duties of being President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles would have required Apostle Smoot to give up the time which he now devotes to being senior U. S. Senator from Utah...
...President let it be known that he would begin to be a little less patient in the matter of European debts. The Debt Funding Commission (including Messrs. Hoover, Mellon, Smoot, Kellogg) was summoned to meet later this month...
...Senator Reed Smoot, taken ill in the Senate, left the floor and physicians were called. "A severe attack of indigestion," they diagnosed and he was sent home. Later, the diagnosis was changed to "breakdown- two weeks complete rest necessary...