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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...
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...
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...
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...
...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...