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Friends of that high-minded Mormon, Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, were startled last week to learn how he was spending his holidays. Thoroughly, searchingly he was reading salacious books, one after another. Carefully he was blue-pencilling the most lascivious passages, turning down pages for future reference...
...Senate had heeded the plea of New Mexico's Harvard-taught Senator Bronson Cutting, and by amendment removed from the Tariff Bill a provision under which Customs agents could censor imported literature. As ammunition to make the Senate reverse itself in the name of public morals, Senator Smoot had obtained from the Customs Bureau 40 of the "rawest" foreign volumes which had leaked into the U. S. Excerpts from these he was prepared to read to the Senate as concrete arguments for censorship. He would ask for a secret legislative session, unheard-of since the Senate moved from Philadelphia...
...Cuba. . . . Because of Shattuck's prominence and his intimacy with President Hoover, I expect we shall pay Shattuck . . . something like $75,000. . . . His connection with President Hoover is our strongest weapon. . . . President Hoover has taken a direct hand. He has already suggested a possible solution to Senator Smoot and to Mr. Shattuck...
Even Republican Generalissimo Smoot voted against adjournment. He cried: "My duty is to stand by the bill and if God gives me strength, that is what I'll do. If it kills me, all right. . . . If the Senate wants to adjourn I'd say THANK GOD but I will never ask for it myself...
When the bean schedule was reached Generalissimo Smoot and Field Marshal Simmons had an acrimonious dispute. The Field Marshal, red in the face, waved his arms and cried: "The Senator from Utah knows nothing about beans!" Glaring down scornfully upon his opponent across the aisle, the Generalissimo snarled back: "Beans! Beans! We grow better beans in Utah than they do in North Carolina?or anywhere else in the world...