Word: smoot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lewis was President Coolidge's reply-in part. His decision on the tariff itself is still in abeyance. The politics of the situation is curious. The high sugar-tariff group consists principally of the beet-sugar farmers of the West; their advocate par excellence is Senator Smoot, of Utah. Their argument is that we must have a high sugar tariff; if not, the sugar importers from Cuba will cut prices, drive the beet sugar industry out of existence, and then hold up the U. S. consumer at will. As may be expected, the regular Republicans, with their high-tariff...
Here one finds Senator Smoot and his regular cohorts taking the side of the sugar farmers; and Senator La-Follette aligned, in regard to one issue at least, against a group of farmers and on the same side as the great financial interests which he attacks...
...Following the Republican Convention at Cleveland, Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge went on their weekend cruise aboard the Mayflower with Mr. and Mrs Frank W. Mondell, Secretary Weeks and Senator Smoot as guests...
Moses, trim and aggressive, occasion ally unleashed his lightning wit, or gave a neat whip cut across the flank of an attacking Democrat. Smoot, the Mormon elder, tall and slender as a mast, with a voice like a wind murmuring among the halyards, went unostentatiously about his business. Fess, coming forward in a halting defense of his brother Ohioan, Daugherty, met the biting attack of the active, relentless Norris. While from the farthest cor ner, Magnus Johnson, in broad Swedish accent, vouched for the distress of the farmers and threatened, if he were re-elected next Fall...
...Property bought by the Mormon Church from Mrs. John B. Henderson will be used to build a Mormon temple ? 16th Street and Columbia Road, Washington, D.C. Mrs. Henderson insisted only that the building be beautiful. Senator Smoot, an Apostle since 1900, is active in the project...