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...Senators hemmed, hawed and set to work to see what they could do with Mr. Mellon's suggestions. Soon the Democrats announced that they would continue fighting for a tax reduction of $300,000,000 at least. Senator Smoot replied for the Conservative Republicans that $187,000,000 was about the right figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Again, Taxes | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...Fall also talked about his famed lie of 1923-his letter to the Senate saying that Publisher McLean and not Oilman Doheny had "loaned" him $100,000. He named Senator Reed Smoot, onetime Senator Irvine L. Lenroot and a Harding Cabinet Member as the persons who had advised him to write the lying letter. Senators Smoot and Lenroot were quick to deny having anything to do with the letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Long, Long Trial | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

...Charles D. Madsen, Chairman, and Louise Handcock; H. P. Beck and Anne Holland; O. S. Loud and Faith Stone; J. M. Poole and Martha Ingalls; H. M. Smoot and Ruthven Parker; H. M. Washburn and Ethelyn Urann...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 250 COUPLES FILL 1929 DANCE BOXES | 2/29/1928 | See Source »

...tariff has always been a political megaphone in senatorial hands and Senator McMaster's outcry started a bedlam of home-papers-please-copy oratory which lasted all week. Chairman Smoot of the Senate Finance Committee droned along for four hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Senate Week Jan. 23, 1928 | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...During Senator Smoot's speech, a young man in the gallery became hysterical and screamed: "Stop this cold-blooded murder!" He was hustled out, sent to a hospital for observation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Senate Week Jan. 23, 1928 | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

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