Word: smoot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fiscal stewardship of the government, must be revamped. In these things, as in relief and public works, definite, workable plans must be substituted for general charges. Similarly, the Republicans must make specific their programs for peace, neutrality, and the limitation of war profits, make definite their retreat from the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, their objections to out-Stimsoning Stimson in the Pacific...
Hull: There was never any tariff on babassu nuts and oils even under the Hawley-Smoot tariff...
...enacted the Hawley-Smoot tariff [in 1930], designed as nearly as possible to exclude every foreign commodity deemed in the slightest degree competitive with domestic production. Other countries, either in pursuit of a similar policy or in retaliation, increased their tariffs. The inevitable result was to reduce trade further, to create greater unsalable surpluses, to lower living standards, while privation and unemployment raged among millions...
...Governor Landon was right. The American farmer has been sold out. But the Governor is mistaken as to who did the selling and when it occurred. The 'sellout' took place during the Hoover Administration, and it was the Smoot-Hawleyites who did the work...
...since disappeared. Last week in Charlotte, N. C. another group, including Charlotte's chief of detectives, announced that a battery of scientists was being assembled to make, probably next month, an exhaustive examination of Peter Ney's bones and dust. Present will be Dr. J. Edward Smoot, who as a boy saw Peter Ney exhumed in 1887, later gathered what he considered convincing proof of the Marshal's escape to the U. S., put it in a book called Marshal Ney Before and After Execution. The historical detectives centre their hopes on finding a silver plate...