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Moses, trim and aggressive, occasion ally unleashed his lightning wit, or gave a neat whip cut across the flank of an attacking Democrat. Smoot, the Mormon elder, tall and slender as a mast, with a voice like a wind murmuring among the halyards, went unostentatiously about his business. Fess, coming forward in a halting defense of his brother Ohioan, Daugherty, met the biting attack of the active, relentless Norris. While from the farthest cor ner, Magnus Johnson, in broad Swedish accent, vouched for the distress of the farmers and threatened, if he were re-elected next Fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Closing Hours | 6/16/1924 | See Source »

...Property bought by the Mormon Church from Mrs. John B. Henderson will be used to build a Mormon temple ? 16th Street and Columbia Road, Washington, D.C. Mrs. Henderson insisted only that the building be beautiful. Senator Smoot, an Apostle since 1900, is active in the project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ecclesiastical Affairs: May 26, 1924 | 5/26/1924 | See Source »

...Senator Smoot estimated that the bill, as passed by the Senate, would produce a deficit of $162,150,000 not allowing for the enactment of the bonus or other extra drains on the Treasury. Nevertheless he voted for the bill finally, in hope that it would be improved in joint conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Altered and Passed | 5/19/1924 | See Source »

...What Mormon elders are there in the Senate??Senators Smoot and King of Utah, neither especially old nor sanctimonious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Book* | 5/5/1924 | See Source »

STANDING COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC LANDS AND SURVEYS TO INVESTIGATE NAVAL OIL LEASES (Teapot Dome Inquiry)-Senators Ladd (Chairman), Smoot, Stanfield, Norbeck, Bursum, Cameron, Spencer, Pittman, Jones (N. M.), Kendrick, Walsh (Mont.), Adams, Dill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Searchers | 4/21/1924 | See Source »

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