Word: smooting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possible that Senator Smoot doesn't know that the West Riding of Yorkshire is one of the administrative divisions of the largest county in England, and contains large manufacturing cities like Leeds, Bradford, Sheffield, Huddersfield, Halifax, or is he joking, or trying to make Senator Harrison believe it is a protest from a riding club...
...possible that Senator Smoot was correctly quoted in your issue of July...
WEST RIDING CHAMBER OF COMMERCE refers to a great manufacturing region of England. The members may or may not ride, have horses; their chief vocation is the manufacturing of woolen goods. Either Senator Smoot was intentionally misleading, or unintentionally ignorant. It would be equally as bad for some Englishman to state that Congress was a meeting...
...Utah's Smoot, no great wit, was joking. A onetime woolman, he knows West Riding woolens...
...fractious a subject was sugar that the Committee agreed to give additional public hearings on the Smoot plan for a sliding tariff scale on this commodity (TIME, July 15). Said the Senator: "What the American sugar producers want is the House rate [3¢ per lb.] but I am putting forward the sliding scale so that if there should be a runaway in the sugar market, it cannot be laid to the tariff." Farm Lobbyist Chester H. Gray called the Smoot plan a "risky experiment," protested its use on agricultural products, advised it be first "tried out on some profitable industrial...