Word: reed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hearst v. The Senate. Had William Randolph Hearst, bold son of a onetime Senator,* tried to make the U. S. Senate his debtor, his newsboy or his strong-arm man? The special committee under Senator Reed of Pennsylvania (TIME, Dec. 19) continued finding out. First of all it examined Publisher Hearst to learn how, when & where he had obtained pseudo-official Mexican documents indicating that $1,215,000 was to have been paid to four U. S. Senators, with Mexican President Calles' halfbrother, Mexican Consul General Arturo M. Elias of Manhattan, and Lawyer Dudley Field Malone of Manhattan...
Senators-Suspect. Its continued existence affirmed by a specific vote, the Senate campaign funds committee under the Missouri Reed invited Senator-suspect Smith of Illinois to come and add to his testimony on his 1926 campaign. Mr. Smith had asked for a postponement. The committee set his hearing for Jan. 7. Further action in the case of Senator-suspect Vare of Pennsylvania was less definitely postponed. Mr. Vare, at home in Philadelphia, was abed with influenza...
...prosecution, led by vindictive Senator Reed of Missouri, retorted that the credentials had already been voided by the Senate's investigation last winter; that the culprits had "had their day in court" with the Senate's investigators. If they had not, that was the fault of rich Mr. Vare's colleague, the other Senator Reed, who "hamstrung" the investigating committee by a filibuster...
...Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, haggard but sharp, defended Mr. Vare as best he could politically, as he had to. He got little help from thicklensed Senator Deneen, the stuffy and ineffectual Smith colleague...
...Department was not so sure. It was said the War Department was anxious to be rid of him because he had agitated for higher rank for his comrades in arms and prayer (TIME. Oct. 17). Upon this the War Department did not comment but ordered him to Walter Reed Hospital for examination. He went unwillingly-and last week Col. John T. Axton, Chief of Army Chaplains, was retired as of next April. Secretary of War Davis wrote him a letter expressing regret that he had been found "physically incapacitated for active duty." To succeed Col. Axton...