Word: smooting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Moses, Good, Work, Smoot, Brookhart, Fess, Simmons, Johnson, Longworth, Wilbur, Jardine, Whiting, Sargent, both Cabinet Davises, Mr. Chief Justice Taft, Senator-suspect Vare, the Rockefellers, 'Legger Remus...
...already a considerable increase over the 1927-28. And, further, these increases occur, in spite of the fact that the War caused public debt has decreased, thereby reducing interest, which is the biggest single annual expense. The conclusion seen in all this by financially minded Republican Senator Reed Smoot is that the U. S. must hereafter expect the cost of government to increase. The "low" of 1925-26 ($3,105,517,645) may be a "low" for all time hereafter...
Considered as an Issue, Boulder Dam is not an inter-party but an intraparty Issue, a cross issue. Loudly as California's Johnson may roar against the Power Trust, there are other Republicans, for example Utah's Smoot, equally effective in its defense. Among Democrats, the same split exists. Smith Democrats, if their chief continues consistent with his State record, will be found on the Federal-operation side, with the Johnsons and (unless signs have misled) the Hoovers. Opposed will be old-linesters, like Maryland's Bruce, who think that the Government should be kept from stepping...
...suggested a plan of funding World War debts to the U. S., which in broad principle is now in force. Three years ago he talked with President Coolidge on another variant for the funding. The President listened to the soft-spoken old man and sent him to Senator Smoot. The Senator let him understand that political demands in Congress must modify any pure economic treatment of the debts (TIME, July...
...that," said Senator Smoot. "Just hold off and I'll see about...