Word: smoot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Smoot, who is due to inherit the Chairmanship of the Senate Finance Committee, went about Washington conferring with the President and Secretary Mellon. The President declined to commit himself. Secretary Mellon wants to reduce income surtaxes and wants the Administration to sponsor a tax bill for that purpose in the next Congress. Senator Smoot agrees that taxes should be reduced but is opposed to any attempt by the Administration in that direction during the following Congress...
...Joint Committee consists of Chairman Walter Folger Brown, lawyer, of Toledo, who represents the President; Senator Smoot of Utah (Republican), Senator Wadsworth of New York (Republican), Senator Harrison of Mississippi (Democrat), Representative Temple of Pennsylvania (Republican), Representative Moore of Virginia (Democrat), and one vacancy caused by the resignation of Representative J. Stanley Webster of Washington (Republican...
...Congress stood next in seniority to Joseph Warren Fordney on the all-powerful Ways and Means Committee. With Mr. Fordney's Congressional demise, Mr. Green will become Chairman of that Committee. If a new revenue bill should be passed in the next Congress it will be a Green-Smoot, instead of a Fordney-Mc Cumber, bill...
...more prominent were Albert D. Lasker, former Chairman of the Shipping Board and its special representative for the trip, Secretary of Labor James J. Davis, William Vincent Astor, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth (daughter of the late Theodore Roosevelt), Representative Martin B. Madden, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, and in the second cabin John W. Slack, postal machinery manufacturer of Silver Creek, N. Y., who recently made unprecedented "fake" bid of $1,000,000, 000 for the entire Government fleet...
Said Secretary of Labor Davis: "Forty-two years ago I came to America in the steerage below the waterline. . . . This is the land of opportunity. Now I am travelling in the suite once reserved for an emperor (the ex-Kaiser)." Said Senator Smoot: "This is the first time I have not been seasick on an ocean voyage...