Word: smoot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Press paid scant attention. Before he could land in France, however, alert newshawks in Paris were cabling dispatches to their papers that French officials believed Undersecretary Mills was coming on a special mission for President Hoover, that he was to investigate European reactions to the new Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act, and also to close negotiations on the problem of France's double taxation of U. S. subsidiaries doing business there...
...Reed Smoot, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, in Salt Lake City last week to be married (see p. 61), commented on the Governor's discussion: "The sales tax is inevitable. It's one of the fairest forms of taxation we have available...
...Provo, Utah (hometown of Senator Reed Smoot), Mr. & Mrs. Francis M. Barney celebrated their golden wedding, felicitated each other on their 14 married children. Mr. Barney further signalized the occasion by getting drunk, choking and threatening to kill Mrs. Barney. She sued for divorce...
Married. Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, 68, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, No. 3 man in the Mormon Church; and Mrs. Alice Taylor Sheets, widow of the late Mormon Bishop Edwin S. Sheets; in the temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Salt Lake City. Fortnight ago Senator Smoot declared: "I'll marry no woman I haven't asked to marry me and I haven't asked any woman to marry me. I'll not say I'm going to Utah to marry and I'll not say I'm not going to Utah...
...session was given over to a discussion of World Peace. Rotarian William Franke, delegate from Switzerland, almost broke it up by flaying the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Bill. When Herr Franke sat down, other Rotarians arose, took sides, turned the meeting into a political squabble...