Word: smooting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Forced by the imperative circumstances to deliberate the Belgian debt matter (see CABINET) at Plymouth with Senator Smoot and Secretary Mellon, the President determined to do so in privacy. Early in the morning he and Mrs. Coolidge slipped downstairs and tacked up bed sheets in such a way as to completely screen the piazza. Later in the day, when the conference took place, the Chief Executive was able to loll in the Gloucester hammock, shielded by the sheets from the curious and the sun. Before Secretary Mellon and Senator Smoot quitted their sturdy porch chairs the irreducible terms...
...SIDE ON THE OTHER Andrew W. Mellon Baron de Cartier de Frank B. Kellogg Marchienne Herbert C. Hoover Georges Theunis Reed Smoot Felician Cattier Theodore E. Burton Emile Francqui Edward N. Hurley Richard Olney Each group made proposals, each group replied courteously...
...Smoot (Utah) Pittman...
...President named Edgar Bernard Brossard of Utah to be a member of the U. S. Tariff Commission. Mr. Brossard has served the Commission as an economist since 1923, and is represented as a high tariff advocate. Senator Smoot recommended him. This is President Coolidge's third appointment to the Commission-all three, including one Conservative Democrat, are high-tariff advocates. With Chairman Marvin and Mr. Glassie, who are of the same opinions, the high-tariff advocates control the Commission five to one. A year ago, a low-tariff group of Democrats and Progressive Republicans controlled the Commission...
...found that Senator Smoot was fully impressed with the great and far-reaching importance of promptly reaching a settlement. . . . On the other hand, he cannot overlook the fact that any adjustment arrived at between the representatives of the foreign nations and the Debt Commission of this country will have to go to Congress for final ratification. Unquestionably, many members of Congress will not view the problem in the broad light that it is entitled to, and will fight for the best settlement based upon a money consideration only. The fact which forms the fundamental basis of the world...