Word: smooting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very solemn handshake it was that Herbert Hoover gave to Senator Reed Smoot last week in Florida as the next President bade the Senate Finance Committee Chairman farewell and sent him back to Washington as a special emissary. For three days they had talked, these two, the Utah Senator's thin querulous voice rising in vain pleadings for an early special session of Congress, for a general tariff revision. Mr. Hoover shook his round head. Many things had been made firmly clear and the parting handshake sealed all conclusions...
With Senator Smoot gone, and with the G. O. P., South, interviewed and dismissed, an unwonted emptiness pervaded the Penney estate. Mr. Hoover was fretful. He had drawn Cabinet lists, rearranged them, scratched them, interlined them, thrown them away and locked his decisions in the secret vault of his mind. Everything was arranged and three slack weeks stretched away to March 4. Other men might have played sportively in the languid Florida sunshine, but not Mr. Hoover. His hands itched to grip the Presidency. He greeted casual callers absently and mused about Washington...
Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, President of the Provo Commercial and Savings Bank, director of Zion's cooperative Mercantile Co., director of the Deseret National Bank, director of the Deseret Savings Bank, member of the World War Foreign Debt Commission, president of the Electric Co. (of Provo, Utah), regent of the Smithsonian Institution, president of the Smoot Investment Co., Apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, is a man of substance and consistency. Last week, as he arrived in Florida to see Mr. Hoover, he declared for "general...
Three days later, emerging from conference with Mr. Hoover, Senator Smoot felt obliged to say that there would be "no general revision of the tariff law at the extra session." Thus did Mr. Smoot show consistency. He supported his Presi-dent?future as well as present...
Died. Mrs. Alpha May Eldredge Smoot, 65, wife of Senator Reed Smoot of Utah; after two years' illness; in Washington...