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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...
...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...
...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...