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...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...
...Rain fell upon President Hoover on his weekend outing at the Shenandoah National Park camp. Indoors he talked tariff with Senator Reed Smoot, congestion in U. S. prisons with Attorney General William DeWitt Mitchell He amused himself by cooking ham and eggs over a coal range, while Filipino chefs stood about as assistants...
Sugar last week became food for Republican thought as the Senate Finance Committee returned to this bitter-sweet subject of tariff-writing. Full committee hearings were held on a plan for a sliding scale of sugar duties proposed by Chairman Reed Smoot as a substitute for the flat rate in the House tariff bill. Senator Smoot spent the weekend with President Hoover at the latter's Shenandoah National Park camp site, returned convinced that the President will approve the bill if his sliding scale is inserted, pondered sugar solemnly with the President...