Word: smooting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the dropping mustaches is Curtis,* Republican leader. He came years ago from Kansas, with Indian blood in him. You seldom hear from him. He is all the time behind the scenes patching up compromises, pleasing people. The tall thin man next to him with the long neck is Smoot-the other Mormon. He is chairman of the Finance Committee. He speaks with a soft voice and retires from the outworks when somebody sets up an outcry. That third man, going up to them, looks like a. prosperous business man and he is. It is Butler, who is supposed...
...renger and the American Commissioners?Secretaries Mellon, Hoover, Kellogg, Senator Smoot, Representative Theodore E. Burton and their colleagues?last week signed an agreement in the following terms...
...compact was hardly made before it was attacked in the Senate by the same group which attacked the Italian debt settlement. Senator James A. Reed of Missouri was particularly vigorous. He subjected Senator Smoot to a grilling examination on how the agreement was arrived at. He fiercely attacked the conduct of the American commission in making the agreement...
...next morning after this information was imparted to the press, at 7:30, a select gathering of Congressional notables assembled at the White House about the breakfast table. There were Senators Curtis, Smoot, Wadsworth, McNary, Speaker Longworth and Representatives Madden, Tilson, Dickinson, Begg-the galaxy of Republican party managers and financial commanders in Congress- and the gist of what they had with their sausages and wheat cakes was the same as what the reporters had had without refreshments the day before...
...accept Italian bonds worth $528,000.000* for a debt of $2,150,151,000. But those who had argued that the settlement was all that Italy was financially able to pay?that it was either so much or nothing?were ahead of him. Senator Fess moved to reconsider. Senator Smoot promptly moved to table the motion, thereby cutting off debate. Later Senator Smoot withdrew his motion...