Word: reed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pointed, a slight flush, as if of embarrassment, appeared on the face of the President. Secretary Hughes grinned. Chief Justice Taft looked puzzled. The Cabinet and Supreme Court appeared amused. The galleries tittered, then laughed outright. The Representatives took it in good part. Only the Senators were glum. Senator Reed of Missouri stifled a laugh, Senator Watson sank down in his chair; one or two showed that they were amazed. Senator Wheeler laughed mirthlessly...
...Senator Reed (Democrat): "His melody of voice, grace of gesture and majesty of presence were only excelled by his modesty...
They thought, as Senator Jim Reed of Missouri was reported to have actually said: "We'll have to tame him." The taming process they regarded as easy; the Vice President, as presiding officer, has almost no power. He can only interpret the rules; while, on the floor, Senators can say anything they like about him or to him, confident that they can make him appear a jackass...
...illustrious roster, that of the Speakers of the House of Representatives, although only one of them ever attained to the Presidency.* There were Henry Clay, James G. Blaine, Samuel J. Randall, Thomas B. Reed, Joseph G. Cannon, Champ Clark. The latest speaker, now Senator Gillett, an able and fair man, had not the reputation that adheres to the fire-eaters of an earlier day. For that matter, the Speakership itself does not now enjoy the reputation that it once had. But it is still a high place in the eyes of the country and it still can invoke a bitter...
...hour and a half the caucus was over. Mr. Longworth-"Nick," wearer of spats, genial, just a bit aristocratic -had advanced his career another step. To be sure, the probability is that, as Speaker, he will have less power than in his former post. The days of Thomas B. Reed, when the Speaker was "Czar," are gone forever. Reed, the sarcastic, the quick-witted, with his New England drawl, and his 200 pounds of avoirdupois (he may have weighed more, but, as he himself observed, "no gentleman weighs more than 200 pounds") overrode the rules and counted silent Democrats, declared...