Word: smoot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act safely on the statute books, its Senate coauthor, Reed Smoot, chairman of the Finance Committee, last week departed from Washington for a rest and a bit of golf" at Provo, Utah, his home. Before going Senator Smoot arose in the Senate Chamber to announce...
Courteously arose Senator Harrison, sharp opponent of Senator Smoot on tariff matters, but his warm friend otherwise, and boomed to the Chamber: "I know that no other Senator is entitled to rest more than he. The Senator can have my pair any time I am on the other side of the question...
After Senator Smoot had left town, his friends heard reports that he, a. widower of a year, a great-grandfather, No. 3 man in the Mormon Church, was to be married again in Salt Lake City, spend his honeymoon in Honolulu. Questioned in Chicago about the report Senator Smoot declared...
...Adopted Senator Borah's resolution directing the Tariff Commission to investigate certain rates in the Hawley-Smoot Bill, with a view to demonstrating the flexible provisions of the Bill...
...Hawley-Smoot Tariff Bill ("steal," its enemies called it) had become law. Some ships, having lost the race, turned out of U. S. ports, took cargoes elsewhere. Conversely, piles of chicle (for gum-chewers), piles of spice and other things nice on which the new law reduced or revoked duties, after long waiting came officially into the U. S. from customs warehouses...