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While H. R. 17054 was still before the Senate Finance Committee for perfunctory consideration, President Hoover did an extraordinary thing that foreshadowed his veto. He wrote an informal but public letter to Chairman Reed Smoot listing his objections to the bill, warning Congress that the bill would retard prosperity by placing an additional burden on the credit and business of the country...
...President Hoover last week began to flex "injustices and inequalities" out of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act. On the recommendations of his new Tariff Commission he cut the rates on woodflour (33¼"% to 25% ad valorem), pigskin leather (25% to 15%), straw hats ($4 per doz. plus 60% to $3 per doz. plus 50%), maple sugar (8? to 6? per lb.). Upped were the rates on woven wire fencing and netting (45% to 50% and 60%). Explanation of the Commission's celerity in investigating these rate cases was its use of foreign invoice values on imports...
Influenza (see p. 26) seized many a notable, including: Mme Ernestine Schumann-Heink; Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock; Prisoner, onetime Queens Borough President Maurice Connolly; Wickersham Commissioner and Radcliffe College President Ada Louise Comstock; Utah's Senator Reed Smoot...
...greatest fights have been against the 18th Amendment (though he is crusading Dry), the 18th Amendment, the Child Labor Amendment, the League of Nations. Charles Beecher Warren as Attorney General, Charles Evans Hughes as Chief Justice, the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act. Constructively he worked for the Income Tax Amendment, the creation of the Department of Labor, the Kellogg Peace Treaty, the direct election of Senators...
Divorced. Harold Smoot, son of U. S. Senator Reed Smoot of Utah; by Mrs. Alice Nibley Smoot; in Salt Lake City. Grounds: mental cruelty...