Word: reed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CONQUEROR PASSES?Larry Barr- etto?Little, Brown ($2.00). Stephen Wicker, ex-ambulance driver, is engaged to Annice Reed. The War has left him too restless to be content with his old job. He takes it, but is unhappy, unable to settle down. Then Annice breaks the engagement and there is no need for him to. So he loses his job in despair and starts merrily to the dogs. When he has practically reached them he is rescued 'from freezing to death by Minna Geiger. She falls in love with him, but he realizes that they will never be happy together...
...Passed a resolution offered by Senator Reed of Missouri for investigation of general propaganda...
Senator James A. Reed?that rara avis a Democratic irreconcilable? proposed and the Republican majority assented. Several weeks ago Senator Reed presented a resolution, one of many, for an investigation. The resolution lay contently in the Committee on Audit and Expenses. But Reed, whose anti-League of Nations activities had moved former President Wilson to suggest that he be not reelected (and who nevertheless was reelected in 1922 by an increased majority), had resources. His anti-League proclivities gave him a certain standing in the Republican camp...
...Committee where the resolution reposed, that it be reported. Senator Keyes obligingly called his committee together and immediately reported the resolution favorably. The Senate passed it without a dissenting vote. Two hours later Senator Cummins, President of the Senate, announced the personnel of the Committee (including Mr. Reed). Before the day was over the Committee had organized and taken action. Edward W. Bok and Esther Everett Lape (Chairman of his Peace Award Committee) were summoned to testify as to their activities...
Score, Harvard 31, Williams 20, Goals, from the floor, Rauh 3, Smith 2, Merriam 2, Rudofsky, Samborski, Cook 3, Fisher 3, Pease, Goals from fouls, Smith 7, Rudofsky 3, Samborski 2, Merriam, Blackmer 4, Fisher, Reed. Referee, Mullen, Umpire, O'Leary. Time, 20 minute halves...