Word: smoot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voted against: Boulder Dam (1928), Hawley-Smoot tariff (1930), Sales Tax (1932), Bonus...
...oust Claudius H. Huston as national chairman in 1930, Senator Fess took the job. His ardent Dry leanings proved a party liability in the 1930 Congressional elections. He resigned in 1932. In the Senate he has voted for: the Bonus (1924), tax reduction (1929), Hawley-Smoot tariff (1930), moratorium on War debts (1931), RFC (1931), Economy Act (1933), overriding the Roosevelt veto on veterans' compensation (1934), St. Lawrence Waterway Treaty (1934). He voted against: Government operation of Muscle Shoals (1931. 1933), direct Federal relief for unemployed (1932, 1933), Repeal (1933), legalization of beer (1933), National Recovery Act (1933), Agricultural...
...years the responsible job of seeing tax bills through, the Senate rested on the patient, sloping shoulders of prosy Reed Smoot, who stood on the floor swinging columns of statistics, ponderously trying to hit the gadflies of the opposition, one of whom, with the most biting sting of all, was Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi. Last week Senator Smoot was in far off Utah serving as a pillar of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.* And Pat Harrison, no longer cast as a gadfly, had to play the heavy, as Chairman of the Finance Committee...
...First Presidency of three, a Council of Twelve Apostles, a First Council of Seventy. Last week for the first time in three years the Mormons met with a full .organization, vacancies having been filled including that of Second Counselor, which had been expected by Apostle Reed Smoot but which went to Joshua Reuben Clark Jr., onetime Ambassador to Mexico. Since 1918 the First Presidency has been headed by patriarchal, 77-year-old Heber Jedediah Grant, potent businessman as well as divinely authorized Prophet, Seer and Revelator. When this patriarch speaks in conference, he is believed by all Mormons...
...only active opponent to the passage of the McDuffie Bill in the House. He declared that an amendment of the Constitution was required to relinquish colonial possession and that the United States had a moral duty to continue her occupation. Moral duties and constitutionalities have little weight with Senator Smoot's sugar lobby, however, and considering the obvious desirability of increasing local and Cuban sugar production, the nobility of Bacon's sentiment was better quashed than quaffed. In an era of economic nationalism, the charitable support of colonial possessions, however Christian, must be swept away. Philippine motes are ocularly harmless...