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Obvious was the deduction that Canada is wholeheartedly in favor of Bachelor Bennett's program of "Canada First" and high protective tariffs. A further fact which most U. S. editors privately admitted, few printed, is that the average Canadian today is frankly anti-U. S. The Hawley-Smoot tariff, which Canadians interpreted as directly aimed against their chief exports, crystallized feelings. Both parties promised retaliatory measures. The Conservatives' measures were more severe. They got the votes...
...Reed Smoot, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, in Salt Lake City last week to be married (see p. 61), commented on the Governor's discussion: "The sales tax is inevitable. It's one of the fairest forms of taxation we have available...
...Provo, Utah (hometown of Senator Reed Smoot), Mr. & Mrs. Francis M. Barney celebrated their golden wedding, felicitated each other on their 14 married children. Mr. Barney further signalized the occasion by getting drunk, choking and threatening to kill Mrs. Barney. She sued for divorce...
Married. Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, 68, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, No. 3 man in the Mormon Church; and Mrs. Alice Taylor Sheets, widow of the late Mormon Bishop Edwin S. Sheets; in the temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Salt Lake City. Fortnight ago Senator Smoot declared: "I'll marry no woman I haven't asked to marry me and I haven't asked any woman to marry me. I'll not say I'm going to Utah to marry and I'll not say I'm not going to Utah...
Plans for a Honolulu honeymoon were altered by a telegram from President Hoover asking Bridegroom & Mrs. Smoot to return to Washington, stay at the White House, help get the London Naval Treaty through the Senate...