Word: smoot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smoot's Smut...
Permit a gentleman of the old school to congratulate you for calling public attention to Senator Blease's speech in the Senate on blasphemy. I wonder if you are going to have the courage to report Senator Smoot's threatened speech about "smut," if and when he makes it? Reformers we shall always have with us but I did hope I could live to see the day when naughty-minded old men would no longer be allowed to sit in the Senate. . . . To excuse themselves they attack the objects of their attention in the name of Righteousness. When...
...Reader Brander rest assured: TIME will explicitly report Senator Smoot's attack, if and when made, upon Senator Cutting's amendment to the Tariff Bill (to take literary censorship out of the hands of customs agents).—ED...
...Battle of Schedule Five of the Senate's tariff war, Old Guardsmen, led by Generalissimo Reed Smoot, chairman of the Finance Committee, had stormed the redoubt of the Democratic-Progressive Republican coalition with a demand for a higher sugar rate. The fighting was fierce and confused, with troopers switching from side to side like the tail of a fly-bitten horse. When the lines were reformed and counted, it was found that the Old Guard had been repulsed...
...differential below the world rate, pays 1.76? per lb. At the demand of cane growers in Louisiana, beet growers in Colorado, Michigan and Utah, the House voted a 3? sugar rate (Cuban: 2.40?). To stifle public outcry against this increase, yet give domestic sugar producers more "protection," Senator Smoot's Finance Committee proposed a world sugar rate of 2.75? (Cuban: 2.20?). Senator Harrison of Mississippi, in the name of U. S. sugar consumers (housewives) who would pay an additional $54,000,000 per year under the proposed Finance Committee plan, moved that the existing rates be retained...