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...Press paid scant attention. Before he could land in France, however, alert newshawks in Paris were cabling dispatches to their papers that French officials believed Undersecretary Mills was coming on a special mission for President Hoover, that he was to investigate European reactions to the new Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act, and also to close negotiations on the problem of France's double taxation of U. S. subsidiaries doing business there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: More Aftermath | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

With the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act safely on the statute books, its Senate coauthor, Reed Smoot, chairman of the Finance Committee, last week departed from Washington for a rest and a bit of golf" at Provo, Utah, his home. Before going Senator Smoot arose in the Senate Chamber to announce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Respite | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

Courteously arose Senator Harrison, sharp opponent of Senator Smoot on tariff matters, but his warm friend otherwise, and boomed to the Chamber: "I know that no other Senator is entitled to rest more than he. The Senator can have my pair any time I am on the other side of the question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Respite | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

After Senator Smoot had left town, his friends heard reports that he, a. widower of a year, a great-grandfather, No. 3 man in the Mormon Church, was to be married again in Salt Lake City, spend his honeymoon in Honolulu. Questioned in Chicago about the report Senator Smoot declared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Respite | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

...session was given over to a discussion of World Peace. Rotarian William Franke, delegate from Switzerland, almost broke it up by flaying the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Bill. When Herr Franke sat down, other Rotarians arose, took sides, turned the meeting into a political squabble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jul. 7, 1930 | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

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