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...After eight weeks of struggling to prove that the nation's tax-exempt foundations had somehow been responsible for promoting something that seemed somewhat un-American or something, a House Special Committee, headed by Tennessee's Republican Brazilla Carroll Reece, decided by a party-line vote (Republicans 3, Democrats 2) to end public hearings and to allow the foundations to submit sworn written statements instead. Official reason for the decision: "In order to expedite the investigation and to develop the facts in an orderly and impartial manner." But Ohio's Democrat Wayne Hays had another version...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report Card | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

...weeks a House Special Committee, headed by Tennessee's Republican B. (for Brazilla) Carroll Reece, has been probing into the doings of the nation's tax-free foundations. Are the foundations-most of which were established by America's most successful capitalists-promoting socialism, or perhaps even subversion? By Recce's standards there seemed to be some evidence that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Lesson | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

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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