Word: goode
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are some excellent lectures coming for this week, and the Vagabond finds the following a good start...
Career: Born into a good family of social standing and abundant means, he was educated at expensive private schools. At 15 he started a juvenile newspaper of which his father, James H. Reed, bought every copy as a method of suppression. Sent to Princeton, he once ran away, hoboed his way to Washington, returned to his studies chastened by the experience. Graduated from Princeton in 1900, he studied law at the University of Pittsburgh, was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in 1903, entered his father's law firm of Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay. The late Senator Knox, friend...
...Progressive Republican-Democratic coalition, he testily predicted the Tariff Bill's death. He is ever active to lower surtax rates on large incomes, to reduce the corporation tax. In general his fiscal policy is identical with that of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, his great and good friend, whom he has repeatedly defended against attacks by Senators Couzens of Michigan and Walsh of Montana...
...wages. . . . The greatest tool of stability is construction and maintenance work. The improvements and betterments and general cleanup of plants. . . . All of these efforts have one end-to assure employment. . . . A great responsibility rests upon the whole people. I have no desire to preach. I may, however, mention one good old word-work...
...which may from time to time arise. . . . In the language of the joint statement issued by the President of the U. S. and the Prime Minister of Great Britain on Oct. 10 last, 'both our governments resolve to accept the peace pact not only as a declaration of good intentions but as a positive obligation to direct national policy in accordance with its pledge...