Word: smooting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hastily, for the honor of the Republican party, Senator Smoot shot forth: "It is against the rules to print such matter and I will ask that it be expunged from the record...
Accordingly Senator Smoot declared again and again that the U. S. cannot get "one cent more" from Italy, and implied that no amount of expert investigation can remedy that fact. "I want to say," he cried earnestly at one point, "that if we do not get this agreement it will be a long, long time before we get anything out of Italy. . . . Personally, I do not want to see Italy exhausted. She must live as well...
Once Senator Smoot tried to start a woolen industry in Provo, Utah. Business genius though he is, he soon gave up. Why? 1) Because it cost him $2.25 a hundred to get wool from San Francisco whereas Bostonians got wool from San Francisco for 75c. 2) Because Bostonians could ship their finished product to Chicago for 50c whereas it cost him $3.40 from Provo...
...this sound and simple reason for the difference in rates between certain long and short hauls does not lessen the grievance of Arizona milk canners in competition with New York, does not enable Senator Smoot to build up teeming wool industries in yawning Utah...
...Senator Smoot would have founded a woolen industry in Utah. What prevented? (See NATIONAL AFFAIRS...