Word: smooting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...officially cleared from Windsor, Ont. for the U. S., as against 470,055 gallons for the same month last year. Commissioner Eble determined to reduce the flow even more. No newcomer to the Treasury, Commissioner Eble, whose home is Salt Lake City and whose political sponsor is Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, was defeated for the Utah Assembly in 1916. Later he remarked: "That's good. A victory would have changed my whole life and made me a politician." In the Army during the War he served as a captain, afterwards joining the Treasury's War Loan staff...
...State Department for several weeks. When Mississippi's Democratic Senator Pat Harrison first asked how many had been received, he received the answer: "About a dozen." He pressed for more definite information. First an erroneous figure of 38 protesting nations was given out. Then Chairman Reed Smoot of the Finance Committee was jockeyed into the necessity of revealing the true list. Some were complaints made by foreign governments as governments; others, merely the transmission of private commercial protests through governmental channels...
...powers of South America. Canada, protested informally, in an oral statement by Minister Vincent Massey hinting at a high Canadian wheat tariff in retaliation for the proposed U. S. duties on lumber and shingles. Having had the list published, Senator Harrison next engaged Senator Smoot in an altercation on what the protests signified. Senator Smoot at first belittled them, called them "unimportant . . . similar in substance to former protests." Senator Harrison called them the result of a U. S. "imperialistic policy in trade and commerce as baneful in its effect as an imperialistic...
...housewife's prejudice against beet sugar, her belief that it is inferior to cane, was admitted by Senator Smoot. He narrated: "Once I took a sack of beet sugar to my wife who rejected it, saying she did not like to cook with beet sugar...
...duty which they scarcely feel, than in neutralizing the public effect of duty increases on Pennsylvania-produced commodities. To cut the automobile duty would, psychologically if not economically, reduce Industry's protection, make Husbandry's protection seem larger. This Reed proposal seemed to illustrate what Senator Smoot had meant by Finance Committee gestures...