Word: reed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...birthday by delivering an address to the National Education Association (see EDUCATION), receiving 45,000 congratulatory messages, including a birthday card an inch thick and signed by 20,000 Massachusetts men, and several bedfuls of flowers. That afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge, looking grave, went to the Walter Reed Hospital. In one of the rooms lay Calvin Coolidge, Jr., 16, their youngest son, stricken suddenly with virulent septic poisoning that had settled in the tibia of his right leg as the result of a tennis blister. Dr. John B. Deaver, of Philadelphia, operated, but by evening it was known that...
Last week were held the last two Courts of the season. At them the following Americans were introduced into the presence of Their Majesties: the Misses Anne Boyd, of Georgia; Sylvia Curtis, of Boston; Sarah Mellon, of Pittsburgh, niece of the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury; Rosamond Reed, daughter of David A. Reed, U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania; Esther Harrison Rowland, of Philadelphia; Frances Lindon Smith, of Boston; Mary Treadwell, of Washington; Mrs. Warren C. Fairbanks, of Chicago; Mary Frost, of California; Edith Ivins, of New York; Dorothy Greene, of Washington; Frances Marion Miller, of New York; Hildreth Scott...
...Leviathan (United States) ? General John J. Pershing; Fortune Gallo, impresario of the San Carlo Grand Opera Company; David A. Reed, junior U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania; Marcus Loew, vaudeville proprietor; Ramon Navarro, cinema actor...
...demand an explanation of it. Following this, he generally declined to object, while Mr. Cummins from the Chair murmured the oft-repeated formula, "Is-there-any-objection-the-Chair-hears-none-the-bill-is-passed." Very occasionally a man with a sleek white head and formidable jaw, James A. Reed of Missouri, rose to speak a few words
...days later, on the closing day of the session, Mr. La Follette called up his resolution. Senator James A. Reed proposed to amend it by enlarging the scope of the investigation to include candidates for Senator. The Senate agreed to the amendment. The resolution was put to the "ayes" and "nays" and was passed without a dissenting vote...