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...Smoot's Waste Basket...
...Smoot feet, large and heavy, once almost created a diplomatic Incident when the French Debt Funding Commission returned to Paris to complain that Senator Smoot, a U. S. Commissioner, had comfortably rested his well-filled shoes upon their conference table. The catch word of that conference was France's "capacity to pay." At its conclusion a French Commissioner called upon Senator Smoot to bid him farewell, to ask if it were really true that Mormons practiced polygamy and if so, how they did it. The Senator replied: "That all depends upon?'the capacity...
...there is a singing in the Smoot heart when a new tariff bill approaches. Here he finds his earthly happiness in absorbed Service to U. S. business...
...voices more potently the demands for super-protection for U. S. industries and manufactures than Joseph R. Grundy, Bristol, Pa., worsted maker, cash collector extraordinary for the G. O. P. (TIME, Feb. 18). In Miami re- cently Senator Smoot was asked about tariff revision. Replied he: "I don't know. I haven't seen...
...facts and figures" campaign speech in Philadelphia caused a good Republican audience, provoked by his schoolmarm manner, to boo Senator Smoot...