Word: smooting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: I want to correct what seemed to me the wrong impression conveyed by your footnote on Senator Smoot, p. 12 (TIME, April 8). As a student of government, I have no special bias in favor of any party, nor am I any particular defender of Senator Smoot. I was, however, present at this meeting during the mayoralty campaign of 1927, at what was then the Metropolitan Opera House. This Republican mass meeting occurred near the close of a campaign notable chiefly for its utter lack of observance of the ordinary decencies of a campaign. Candidates were referred...
...Smoot's Waste Basket...
TIME arrived as usual and reposed on my desk while its subscriber breakfasted. Returning. TIME had disappeared. Four or five hours later, after searching high and low, found TIME in Senator Smoot's private waste basket...
TRUMAN R. YOUNG* Washington, D. C. To Senator Smoot, apologies if TIME'S report on his golfing prowess was calumnious. TIME said: "His golf came at the age of 63. Now from 6 to 7 a. m. he plays around on the capital's public links, shooting no in straight, cautious jabs...
...facts and figures" campaign speech in Philadelphia caused a good Republican audience, provoked by his schoolmarm manner, to boo Senator Smoot...