Word: reed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Allen Reed, Chairman, Miss Beatrice Moshier; Harold Valentine, Miss Beatrice deKalb, R. G. Rosegrant, Miss Phyrne Leland. H. M. Butterfield, Miss Emma Brown; James Surpless, Miss Ruth Schlenket, Richard Bancroft, Miss Irene Cole...
...surcharge of 50% on Pullman car tickets, established during the war, be abolished. There was a vigorous debate on this amendment, Senator Howell of Nebraska protesting that if it were possible to reduce any railway revenues, the reduction should be on freight rates for farm products. To this, Senator Reed of Missouri replied that the surcharge reduction would benefit everyone: "The farmer doesn't ride on the cowcatcher. He rides in the Pullman, just the same as other people." (Returned to House...
...Senator Reed Smoot of Utah was at pains, last week, to deny a rumor that he was about to resign his seat in the Senate to become head of the Mormon Church. Heber J. Grant, present head of the Church, is ill; but even if he should die, Rudger Clawson is senior to Mr. Smoot among the Mormon elders...
...under the hard task-master, the May examinations. He remembers that some of Harvard's finest "illustri"--Emerson, for example, and Thoreau keeping himself in the pink of condition waiting for something to turn up and Henry Adams with his cloquent disenchantment in his "Education", and Roosevelt, and John Reed, and Walter Lippman and a host of others--he remembers that these men were all given to an internal species of question and wonderment as to what four years of undergraduate life could possibly have meant to them Thinking along similar lines, the Senior likewise begins to rebel...
...open session. The open session lasted six hours. Senator Walsh of Montana attacked the nomination because of Mr. Stone's contemplated action against Senator Wheeler. Senator Heflin attacked Mr. Stone because of the Ownbey case. Senator Norris objected to Mr. Stone as "Morgan & Co.'s attorney." Senator Reed of Missouri and Senator Borah declared that they did not approve of the practice of seeking an indictment against a man far from his home, but announced that they would vote for confirmation. Mr. Borah added: "I want to call the attention of my friend the Senator from Nebraska...