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Your June 27 story on Senator Kefauver's recent smutterings reminds me of Ogden Nash Senator Smoot (Republican Ut.) Is planning a ban on smut...
...Smite, Smoot...
...When Smoot Smote Smut...
...Mormon missionary stint in England for two years, and then returned to Utah for further study. In 1929 he attended George Washington University in Washington, D.C. At the same time, he worked for Massachusetts Senator David Walsh on tariff matters, doing much of the spadework on the famed Hawley-Smoot tariff bill. The next year he joined Aluminum Co. of America, among other jobs was a door-to-door salesman in Los Angeles before returning to Washington as a lobbyist for the company when it was investigated on antitrust charges in 1937. He joined the Automobile Manufacturers Association...
...first. Among other things, it would have set higher duties on lead, zinc and watch movements, imposed quotas on oil imports, made it easier for domestic producers to seek relief from the Tariff Commission. Simpson avowed that under his bill manufacturers could get "50% more protection than under the Smoot-Hawley...