Word: utah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heading the committee is inquisitive Senator Reed, Democrat from Missouri; the other Democrat on the committee is Senator King of Utah, one of the least silent men in the upper house. Young Senator LaFollette, Progressive Republican from Wisconsin, not inclined to be forward, has yet shown in the Tariff Commission investigation that he is not the type to sit back dumbly during cross-examining. The Republican side of the committee has Senator Goff of West Virginia, a so-called hard-boiled Republican of the genus bred in West Virgina, and Senator McNary of Oregon, known in the Senate...
...vigorous ebullitions in Congress. Not only did such men as Senator Bruce (Wet and Democratic) of Maryland denounce the order as an invasion of state rights, but such men as Senator Goff (Dry and Republican) of West Virginia inveighed against it. Democrats such as Robinson of Arkansas, King of Utah, George of Georgia, turned upon the order. So did Wadsworth, Republican, of New York...
...Senate, but each of them is more likely than not to be opposed to the rest of his party on any given question. That is why they are not leaders. That erudite looking man over there is one of the two Mormons in the Senate-Senator King of Utah. He talks more than any other Senator. He has something learned to say on almost every subject, but he does not carry many votes with him. That good looking, young-looking fellow just to your left-he is David Reed, a cousin of the other Reed but a Republican...
...this sound and simple reason for the difference in rates between certain long and short hauls does not lessen the grievance of Arizona milk canners in competition with New York, does not enable Senator Smoot to build up teeming wool industries in yawning Utah...
...Senator Smoot would have founded a woolen industry in Utah. What prevented? (See NATIONAL AFFAIRS...