Word: smoot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months of debate on the tariff, Senators spoke 4,219,000 words, which cost $131,900 to print in the Congressional Record. Democrats spoke for 221 hours, Republicans 158 hours, Insurgents 148 hours. Such were the statistics given the Senate last week by that master statistician, Chairman Reed Smoot of the Finance Committee, nominal pilot of the tariff bill...
...January the Senate voted 4840-38 not to raise the duty on sugar as proposed by the Finance Committee. Last week when Senator Smoot offered an individual amendment to increase the world sugar rate from 2.20¢ per Ib. to 2.50¢ (Cuban: 1.76¢ to 2¢), the Senate reversed its position and adopted 47-10-39 the Smoot Amendment. Reason: legislative trading. Washington's Senators Jones and Dill, for instance, reversed themselves to get a lumber duty. Oklahoma's Senators Pine and Thomas did likewise to get an oil duty. Arizona's Ashurst and Hayden switched for a long...
Ernest Winder Smoot, youngest son of Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, was proud that his Irish setter. "Delaware Kate," had been judged the best dog in the Buffalo Kennel Club show...
Shuey sayings: "Ashurst [of Arizona] is one of the most delightful speakers here now. . . . Borah's a pretty good speaker but not aggressive enough. . . . John Sharp Williams [of Mississippi] had about the best intelligence in the Senate and deepest culture. . . . King and Smoot [both of Utah] speak most frequently. . . . Why don't Senators nowadays look as distinguished as their predecessors? Well, perhaps they don't get enough to drink. You know that helps a man's looks...
...compared the campaign to "a thief in the night," flayed the substitution of "a poisonous alkaloid" for "a nourishing food." Advertising men (through Advertising & Selling, a trade paper) discussed Good Testimonials v. Bad Testimonials, thought that Bad Testimonials were wrecking public confidence in advertising. Utah's Senator Reed Smoot (long interested in beet sugar & its tariff) said that there had not been such an orgy of buncombe since public opinion rose in its might and smote the drug traffic. He proposed that tobacco should be included in the Food & Drug Act and that food and drug advertising be subjected...