SERVING TWO MASTERS
U.S. SENATOR’S SON
AIR MAIL INVESTIGATION
(Received March 1, 3 p.in.) WASHINGTON,, Feb. 28. Mr. Ernest Smoot, a son of the former Utah senator, told the Senate air mail investigating committee to-day that he had received over 19,750 dollars in salaries from private companies while serving as a., clerk, to the Senate Finance Committee in 1929, IJe also told, the committee that he was engaged as "public relations” representative in Washington for the Western Air Express in 1930, at the same time as he was receiving 3325 dollars annually from the Government as his father’s secretary. His, duties consisted of "keeping in touch with developments in the ’Comptroller-General's office and the Senate and House Appropriations Committee” at a time when the comptroller was considering a high bid which Western Air submitted for a mail route.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18335, 1 March 1934, Page 13
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