Word: reed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...specialties were given. The first of these was held in the Casino Theatre in New York City on Sunday evening April 15, in behalf of the Boy Scouts of America, while the second was given on Tuesday afternoon in Washington before about 700 wounded soldiers at the Walter Reed Hospital...
...punched the face of a waiter in a cafe, a Paris newspaper suggested that 'in the name of all organizations calling for good sportsmanship, Siki be captured, chained and sent back to his native Senegal, where he can enjoy himself with the rest of the savages." Florence Reed: "At a committee hearing on a bill to legalize Sunday theatrical performances I pleaded: ' Give us this blessed, precious 24 hours of rest on Sundays. Please don't take it away from us!'" William A. Brady: "I told the committee: ' No matter what laws are passed...
Prominent in the opposition to radical tax changes will be Senator Reed Smoot of Utah (who according to seniority rules will in the ordinary course of events be Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee), Senator Watson of Indiana (another member of the Committee) and probably most of the "administration" Republicans. In favor of the tax changes will be Representative Frear and the progressive bloc, probably allied with the Democrats, and, most important of all, Senator La Follette, who next to Senator Smoot is senior member of the Finance Committee, and might possibly (by a coup of the progressives) become...
...angle was put on the investigations into the sudden rise in the price of sugar from seven to ten cents by charges of Senator Reed Smoot of Utah against sugar refiners. Senator Smoot's attitude bears weight because he is next in line by seniority right for the chairmanship of the Senate Finance Committee?the committee which passes on tariff measures. What is more, he comes from Utah, one of the four leading beet sugar producing states. These states (Colorado, Utah, Michigan and California) produce over 70% of native beet sugar...
...features of the trip will be a benefit performance consisting chiefly of specialties for the soldiers and sailors, in the Walter Reed base hospital in Washington. On April 20 the Westinghouse transmitting station (W J Z) will broadcast the New York performance from their station in Newark...