Word: reed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republican party was genuinely "stunned" but it soon recovered poise. Mark Sullivan, dean of Washington observers, pictured the G. O. P. proper as a body of hard-working politicians like Senators Smoot, Willis and David A. Reed, Secretary Mellon, Vice President Dawes, Frank O. Lowden, Nicholas Longworth ? men among whom Calvin Coolidge is, by temperament and tradition, a virtual stranger. These men, thought Mr. Sullivan, would be sorry to lose so good a vote-getter as Calvin Coolidge but ? personal ambitions quite aside ? they would not seek to nominate him now because that would be "the sort...
Last week, for instance, Senator Byron Patton Harrison of Mississippi announced that taxes should be reduced by no less than $500,000,000. Democrat Harrison is a member of the Senate Finance Committee and so, in a position to make his views felt. Meanwhile Republican Senator Reed Smoot, Chairman of the Finance Committee, said that a reduction of more than $300,000,000 would be unsafe. Both Senators Harrison and Smoot agreed on one point-the desirability of calling a special session of Congress in October. Some weeks ago Senator Smoot visited President Coolidge (then in Washington) and announced that...
Later, he did reconstruction work at the Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D. C., trained officers at Plattsburg...
Last week Senator Reed Smoot of Utah read Herber C. Hoover's report on flood conditions (see catastrophe) ; came to the conclusion that a special Congressional session, not later than Nov. 1, was "absolutely necessary if flood sufferers are to obtain prompt and adequate relief." It was recalled that Senator Smoot has been urging a special session for more than a month; that he is Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee; that even after perusal of the Hoover report he put the passage of the Deficiency BUI (filibustered out at the last session of Congress) as the first duty...
Died. Judge James Hay Reed, 73, father of U. S. Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania; in Pittsburgh. Judge Reed was an organizer of the U. S. Steel Corp.; was a onetime law partner of the late Philander Chase Knox (U. S. Secretary of State under President Taft and U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania...