Word: smooting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator! Come back here! The show isn't over. I want you to shake hands with Senator Smoot and say loudly 'That's fine...
...morning last week Chairman Reed Smoot of the Senate Finance Committee, distressingly fatigued after months of tariff-writing, was marched to the front portico of the Capitol by a dictatorial movietone cameraman. He was instructed to make a speech on the Hawley-Smoot (tariff) bill. For an audience the cineman commandeered Senator William Edgar Borah, hastening by to the barber shop for a much-needed haircut. Senator Smoot extolled his bill. Senator Borah looked glum. When the speech ceased Senator Borah turned, walked away. Cried the cineman, no student of tariff politics...
...manganese producers who charged that the Senate Republicans were favoring great Eastern corporations potent in politics. Connecticut's Senator Hiram Bingham was one of the two Republicans whose vote change caused the manganese rate change. His explanation: "The White House wanted it." Even high-tariff Chairman Reed Smoot, incensed at his committee's inconsistency, ironically observed that the market value of U. S. Steel stock had increased "only a hundred million dollars" after the last fortnight's slump precipitated by an increase of the Federal Reserve's rediscount rate...
Having disposed of last-minute details, the Senate Finance Committee last week completed its rate revision of the Hawley-Smoot tariff bill, made public its handiwork. Its Republican members then took up the administrative provisions of the measure, which, by the system of valuation determined upon, will point the entire legislation up or down...
...Finance Committee last week decided: 1) To abandon Senator Smoot's sliding sugar tariff because of its resemblance to price-fixing; 2) To triple the house-proposed duty on waste wool; 3) To reduce the duty on automobiles from...