Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chairman of the metals subcommittee of the Senate Finance Committee is Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, onetime attorney for U. S. Steel Corp. Well he knew what the steelman wanted. Also on the job was Pennsylvania's Joseph R Grundy, arch-lobbyist for manufacturers The sequence of recent events: 1) The Finance Committee by a vote of 7-to-4 first rearranged the manganese ore tariff on metal content, in effect increasing the duty above the 1 cent per Ib. level. 2) From Moscow came the announcement that U. S. Steel Corp. had signed a five-year contract...
...that point that something happened, something perhaps internationally significant. Polo is usually a game of brilliant individuals. The young Old Aikens rely on perfect team-play. Riding into the fifth chukker against the Greentrees they opened a team attack of such dash and precision that they scored five times without giving the Greentrees another goal. Captain Iglehart tied the score on a free shot just before the final gong. In the extra period he smacked another one through. The Midwests, able individualists though they were, could make no headway at all against the Old Aiken system of feeding, riding...
Some three months ago complaints of Walter Reed patients reached the ears of Senator David Aiken Reed, chairman of the Military Affairs Committee (no kin of the late Major Reed). The complaints were: insufficient food of poor quality, "wormy" fruit, no milk to drink, squelching of patient criticism...
Knowing this, and angered by the Senate Chamber's emptiness, Senator Reed darkly hinted that he would filibuster. This news brought a frown to the tired forehead of the Senate's other Reed? slim, stooping young David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, protégé of Andrew Mellon...
Died. Elmer Schlesinger, 48, of Manhattan, Jewish lawyer (Chadbourne, Stanchfield & Levy), longtime Chicagoan, onetime vice president and general counsel of the U. S. Shipping Board; of heart disease; while golfing in Aiken, S. C. Lawyer Schlesinger was the husband of onetime Countess Eleanor Patterson Gizycka, Chicago Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson's sister. He was a director of the Patterson publications (Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, Liberty Magazine). He was divorced from Halle Schaffner of Chicago, daughter of Founder Joseph Schaffner of Hart, Schaffner & Marx, tailors...