Word: smoot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carried 17 men as weekend guests. Mrs. Hoover, slowly recovering from her seriously sprained back, was still unable to accompany him. Hard rain again interrupted the President's fishing. Four Senators abruptly hastened back to Washington to carry a mysterious message from President Hoover to Utah's Senator Reed Smoot on the final Tariff compromise...
...last moment Senator Smoot, in charge of the bill, received a sudden mysterious message from President Hoover on the Rapidan...
...Southern States . . . prestige and recognition." What moved Representative Garner, as a Texan, as Minority leader of the House and as a member of the House Ways & Means Committee, to advocate this major change was the apparent victory of the industrial Northeast over the South & West in the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Bill. If the Lone Star State were changed into a constellation of five, Mr. Garner foresaw eight additional Democratic Senators from the four new States - enough to over whelm Grundy-Republican-Tariffism. And incidently, under the Garner plan, what is now Texas would cast 28 electoral votes for President instead...
Last week they returned to the Senate where Generalissimo Reed Smoot asked that they be released from their instructions, that the Senate recede from its demand for these two controverted items. He warned that the House and the White House would not relax their opposition and that, unless the Senate changed front, the Tariff Bill was as "dead as Julius Caesar...
...Last week 1,028 professional economists in a joint appeal asked President Hoover to veto the Hawley-Smoot tariff bill (see p. 17). Among their reasons: 1) Increased domestic prices; 2) Damaged export trade; 3) Foreign reprisals...