Word: smooting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heavy double doors, securely locked, depended a small sign, bearing the gilt lettering: "Executive Session." A blackamoor has lounged at the entrance to enforce the sign. The sitters within were Republican members of the Ways & Means Committee of the House of Representatives, their heads together on the forthcoming Hawley-Smoot Tariff Bill...
...diligence, a certain futility marked the tariff labors of the House Ways & Means Committee. A quarter of a mile across the Capitol grounds waited the man who in the end would leave the largest impress of authority upon this legislation ?Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance.*The House writes tariff bills; the Senate Finance Committee chairman rewrites them...
Abraham Owen Smoot crossed the plains in 1846 with Brigham Young, was mayor of Salt Lake City when the U. S. Army descended upon that "nest of polygamous iniquity." To him by his wife Anne in 1862 was born a third child, a son named Reed. Ten years later Abe Smoot moved his Mormon household to Prove, 50 miles south of the Utah capital, there to start a woolen mill, to import the first beet sugar mill west of the Mississippi...
President of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association, Mr. Grundy raised many a useful dollar for the G.O.P. on the expectation that supreme tariff protection would be given Pennsylvania manufactures, especially textiles and cement. So potent has Mr. Grundy been tariff-tailoring that when Utah's Reed Smoot. the chief Senate tariff designer, was asked about revision last month during his visit to Herbert Hoover in Florida, he said: "I don't know. I haven't seen...
Married. Alice Smoot, 18, of Washington, granddaughter of Senator Reed Smoot of Utah; and Frederic H. Chambers, 22, radio magazineman of Washington; after an elopement to Frederick...