Word: smoots
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With Senator Smoot gone, and with the G. O. P., South, interviewed and dismissed, an unwonted emptiness pervaded the Penney estate. Mr. Hoover was fretful. He had drawn Cabinet lists, rearranged them, scratched them, interlined them, thrown them away and locked his decisions in the secret vault of his mind. Everything was arranged and three slack weeks stretched away to March 4. Other men might have played sportively in the languid Florida sunshine, but not Mr. Hoover. His hands itched to grip the Presidency. He greeted casual callers absently and mused about Washington...
Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, President of the Provo Commercial and Savings Bank, director of Zion's cooperative Mercantile Co., director of the Deseret National Bank, director of the Deseret Savings Bank, member of the World War Foreign Debt Commission, president of the Electric Co. (of Provo, Utah), regent of the Smithsonian Institution, president of the Smoot Investment Co., Apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, is a man of substance and consistency. Last week, as he arrived in Florida to see Mr. Hoover, he declared for "general...
Three days later, emerging from conference with Mr. Hoover, Senator Smoot felt obliged to say that there would be "no general revision of the tariff law at the extra session." Thus did Mr. Smoot show consistency. He supported his Presi-dent?future as well as present...
...Smoot's summary conversion showed plainly that Mr. Hoover had made up his mind about what he wants done to the tariff. He wants a higher tariff for agriculture and for a few specific indus tries (not named) which are now in poor condition...
...Grundy and the tariff boosters had their shoulders to the wheel. Congress itself seemed ready to give it a spin?and then Mr. Smoot was converted in Miami. Small wonder if Mr. Grundy had food for thought. Small wonder if Mr. Hoover too had food for thought. Could he disgruntle Mr. Grundy?the Mr. Grundy who raised for the Republicans...