Next are the Twelve Apostles, most famed of whom is U. S. Senator Reed Smoot, chairman of the Senate ... Patriarch (head evangelist), the First Quorum of Seventy (foreign ministry), the Presiding ...

Stevenson and Gerrit W. Gong of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles represented the church at events and meetings surrounding the inaugural ceremonies for Trump and Vice President JD Vance.

Reed Smoot and Rep. Willis Hawley — who supported the bill. The U.S. Senate Historical Office classifies the resulting high tariffs as “a disaster,” noting that American trading partners ...

Willis Hawley (R-Oregon), chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee and Sen. Reed Smoot (R-Utah), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, expanded on Hoover’s directive and ...

Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles dedicated BYU’s School of Music Building on April 16, 2025. He serves as chairman of the Church Educational System Executive ...

Perhaps. Then again, other countries had been busy raising tariffs before America. Reed Smoot, the co-sponsor of the bill, may have had a point when he wrote in 1930 that “Only the purblind ...

After the stock market crash of 1929, the sudden rise in American unemployment greatly moved Senator Reed Smoot (R-UT) and Representative Willis Hawley (R-OR). To protect jobs in the United States ...