Word: smoot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Influenza (see p. 26) seized many a notable, including: Mme Ernestine Schumann-Heink; Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock; Prisoner, onetime Queens Borough President Maurice Connolly; Wickersham Commissioner and Radcliffe College President Ada Louise Comstock; Utah's Senator Reed Smoot...
...greatest fights have been against the 18th Amendment (though he is crusading Dry), the 18th Amendment, the Child Labor Amendment, the League of Nations. Charles Beecher Warren as Attorney General, Charles Evans Hughes as Chief Justice, the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act. Constructively he worked for the Income Tax Amendment, the creation of the Department of Labor, the Kellogg Peace Treaty, the direct election of Senators...
Utah's Senator Reed Smoot, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and good Presidential supporter, growled: "With approximately $600,000,000 in appropriations outstanding and more likely to be made, I don't see how next year we are going to pay any more into the War debt sinking fund than the 3 ½ % required by law. . . . We are going to pay our debts no matter who howls, and restoration of the 1 % [knocked last year off the income-tax] is imperative. . . . The country will be surprised at the small taxes that will be paid next March because...
Divorced. Harold Smoot, son of U. S. Senator Reed Smoot of Utah; by Mrs. Alice Nibley Smoot; in Salt Lake City. Grounds: mental cruelty...
...That the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 was, as a whole, futile and that the various measures adopted therein are little more than gestures, "made because the Republicans had vaunted the tariff as a never-failing remedy and were under bonds to keep their promises for this sort of relief," and that the most important result of the new tariff up to now has been to irritate Canada are the opinions expressed by Professor F. W. Taussig '79, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, in an article which is to appear in the November issue of the Economic Quarterly...