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Word: brazilla (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mild, professorial Brazilla Carrol Reece, Republican Representative from Tennessee, World War hero, disembarked in Los Angeles from the Matson liner Matsonia, leaving his wife and daughter on board. When he tried to rejoin them, a pier guard at the gang plank refused to let him pass. At that Hero Reece grappled with the guard, bit his ear good & proper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 18, 1939 | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...earned him sufferance for fighting the President's Supreme Court plan). Beside Chairman O'Mahoney will sit his antimonopolist colleague, Senator Borah of Idaho, and Utah's colorless, querulous old Senator King. The House members, besides Mr. Eicher, are fiery Hatton Sumners of Texas, sophisticated Brazilla Carroll Reece of Tennessee (Republican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Six and Six | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

Tennessee. Fateful was the mistake the Administration made in endorsing a Democratic candidate in California but no serious consequences were to be expected from another error. Noting that the sole candidate for Congress in the first district of the Democratic State of Tennessee was Brazilla Carroll Reece, the Democratic National Committee sent him a cordial letter of endorsement. However, the first district is in the eastern, mountainous portion of the State; Candidate Reece happens to be a Republican Congressman. It was grim news to Mr. Fletcher. No blunders by his opponents could help him much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: No Contest | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

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