Word: reed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stony-jawed Senator James A. Reed of Missouri fired a few salvos at the routed Republicans, took a fling at Prohibition and then, himself hopeful of his party's highest favor, paid dutiful compliments to Democratic heroes, including the hero whom he had fought most bitterly, Woodrow Wilson...
Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland praised Senator Reed, Grover Cleveland and the outstanding absentees, Dry Senator Thomas James Walsh of Montana and Wet Governor Smith of New York. About the latter. Governor Ritchie waxed fervent: "He has proved himself, of course, the great Governor of a great State and an honest, fearless and efficient administrator. But more than that, the masses sense that here is an authentic voice, not only of the Democratic Party but of the democracy of the nation...
About Prohibition, Governor Ritchie was not nearly so outspoken as Senator Reed. The Ritchie point is states' rights; the Reed, political rancor. Yet it was after the Ritchie speech that Toastmaster Davis saw fit to depart from routine to "restore harmony." The U. S. people, said he, were divided in three classes, not two, on Prohibition?the third being "those who believe the present law is the best way to deal with this great governmental experiment, at present...
...when the U. S. Senate finally denies Senator-suspect William S. Vare of Pennsylvania his seat, alert, greyhaired, busy-buzzing Gifford Pinchot, onetime (1923-27) Governor of Pennsylvania, will try to fill the vacancy. And when the seat of Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania comes up for election in November, able, redhaired, social-working Mrs. Gifford Pinchot will try to fill that vacancy. So, at least, rumored one Jane Randolph, Capitol newsgatherer, last week...
Married. Miss Parmelia Pryor of Greenwich, Conn., to Joseph Verner Reed of Denver, wealthy worker on the Chattanooga Times; in Greenwich, Conn...