Word: smooting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Smoot, in charge of the bill, was anxious to get it passed speedily. He managed to have the Senate start work at 11:00 a. m. instead of at noon, but that did not hasten matters appreciably. He then said that if action did not rapidly speed up he would bring about 12-hour sessions, from 11 a. m. to 11 p. m., with no recess for supper...
...Before Congress reassembled, the President was busy seeing members of that body. Senator Borah was with him one night for dinner. Senator Smoot dropped in with friends. Others came to see, to urge or to inquire...
...Senator Smoot, Mormon Elder, in his office at Washington, picked up a glass in one hand and a bottle of mineral water in the other. The bottle slipped. He caught it with the hand holding the glass. Glass and bottle fractured. Three of his fingers required surgery. John W. Langley, Representative from Kentucky, Chairman of the Public Buildings Committee, convicted for conspiracy to violate the Volstead Act and sentenced to two years in Atlanta, is to be relieved of his post as Chairman...
There is small doubt that the time element worked in Count Volpi's favor, but there must have been other factors as well which enabled the Italian negotiator to convince Secretaries Mellon, Kellogg and Hoover and Senator Smoot as well that Italy deserved the terms she got-the most lenient which the U. S. has granted to any debtor nation, not excepting Belgium...
Reasons for Leniency. The reason that Senator Smoot and other members of the Debt Commission were willing to grant Italy such lenient terms was simple: They did not believe she could pay more. Her soil is not fertile enough to give Italy a big export surplus of agricultural products. She has very little in the way of natural resources. She has very high taxes and few wealthy people. All she has is cheap labor, and cheap laborers are very poor people from whom to raise taxes...