Word: smooting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Agriculture Committee will meet on March 27 and is expected to have a farm relief measure ready for Congress to act on as soon as it meets. The Republican members of the Ways & Means Committee are already quietly writing a tariff bill? it will be known as the Smoot-Hawley bill ?without consulting their Democratic colleagues. Because of their majority the Republicans can report the bill and probably get it through the House under a special rule prohibiting amendments. In the Senate, however, where no such rule will apply, the question will be torn wide open and the bill...
Boris listened to Reed Smoot call Charles Curtis "A child of the Wrest." He saw an attendant bend Time to the Constitution by setting back the Senate clock first ten minutes, then seven, to keep its hands from reaching noon too soon. Microphones were scattered about everywhere. In a glass booth David Lawrence of the United States Daily was telling the world...
...with a round face, a slight lisp, freckles, a cowlick, and good teeth for apple-biting. He served the Brown Derby during the campaign as personal messenger. He wept honestly when Nominee Hoover was elected. Alert, respectful, he is the Senate's favorite page. Page Logan is Senator Smoot's grandson...
...Smoot's summary conversion showed plainly that Mr. Hoover had made up his mind about what he wants done to the tariff. He wants a higher tariff for agriculture and for a few specific indus tries (not named) which are now in poor condition...
...Grundy and the tariff boosters had their shoulders to the wheel. Congress itself seemed ready to give it a spin?and then Mr. Smoot was converted in Miami. Small wonder if Mr. Grundy had food for thought. Small wonder if Mr. Hoover too had food for thought. Could he disgruntle Mr. Grundy?the Mr. Grundy who raised for the Republicans...