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President of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association, Mr. Grundy raised many a useful dollar for the G.O.P. on the expectation that supreme tariff protection would be given Pennsylvania manufactures, especially textiles and cement. So potent has Mr. Grundy been tariff-tailoring that when Utah's Reed Smoot. the chief Senate tariff designer, was asked about revision last month during his visit to Herbert Hoover in Florida, he said: "I don't know. I haven't seen...
...Agriculture Committee will meet on March 27 and is expected to have a farm relief measure ready for Congress to act on as soon as it meets. The Republican members of the Ways & Means Committee are already quietly writing a tariff bill? it will be known as the Smoot-Hawley bill ?without consulting their Democratic colleagues. Because of their majority the Republicans can report the bill and probably get it through the House under a special rule prohibiting amendments. In the Senate, however, where no such rule will apply, the question will be torn wide open and the bill...
Married. Alice Smoot, 18, of Washington, granddaughter of Senator Reed Smoot of Utah; and Frederic H. Chambers, 22, radio magazineman of Washington; after an elopement to Frederick...
Boris listened to Reed Smoot call Charles Curtis "A child of the Wrest." He saw an attendant bend Time to the Constitution by setting back the Senate clock first ten minutes, then seven, to keep its hands from reaching noon too soon. Microphones were scattered about everywhere. In a glass booth David Lawrence of the United States Daily was telling the world...
...with a round face, a slight lisp, freckles, a cowlick, and good teeth for apple-biting. He served the Brown Derby during the campaign as personal messenger. He wept honestly when Nominee Hoover was elected. Alert, respectful, he is the Senate's favorite page. Page Logan is Senator Smoot's grandson...