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...very solemn handshake it was that Herbert Hoover gave to Senator Reed Smoot last week in Florida as the next President bade the Senate Finance Committee Chairman farewell and sent him back to Washington as a special emissary. For three days they had talked, these two, the Utah Senator's thin querulous voice rising in vain pleadings for an early special session of Congress, for a general tariff revision. Mr. Hoover shook his round head. Many things had been made firmly clear and the parting handshake sealed all conclusions...
Died. Mrs. Alpha May Eldredge Smoot, 65, wife of Senator Reed Smoot of Utah; after two years' illness; in Washington...
Moses, Good, Work, Smoot, Brookhart, Fess, Simmons, Johnson, Longworth, Wilbur, Jardine, Whiting, Sargent, both Cabinet Davises, Mr. Chief Justice Taft, Senator-suspect Vare, the Rockefellers, 'Legger Remus...
...already a considerable increase over the 1927-28. And, further, these increases occur, in spite of the fact that the War caused public debt has decreased, thereby reducing interest, which is the biggest single annual expense. The conclusion seen in all this by financially minded Republican Senator Reed Smoot is that the U. S. must hereafter expect the cost of government to increase. The "low" of 1925-26 ($3,105,517,645) may be a "low" for all time hereafter...
...suggested a plan of funding World War debts to the U. S., which in broad principle is now in force. Three years ago he talked with President Coolidge on another variant for the funding. The President listened to the soft-spoken old man and sent him to Senator Smoot. The Senator let him understand that political demands in Congress must modify any pure economic treatment of the debts (TIME, July...