Word: reed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gordon '27 and Arthur in-graham Jr. '30 to determine the third Harvard match. The final choice of Harvard-Yale players for the English invasion is as follows: J. F. W. Whitbeck '27, L. H. Gordon '27, and M. I. Hill '30, of Harvard, and Watson, McGlinn, and Reed of Yale...
Democrats polled some 160,000 votes (40,000 less than the Republicans) with Alfred Emanuel Smith comfortably leading with 53,751. Senator James A. Reed, eloquent Missourian, ran second with 41,185. William Gibbs McAdoo, declared politically dead by Smith followers, stirred in his grave and captured 37,245 ballots. Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland, Wet champion of states' rights, totaled 26,113 and Governor Alvin Victor Donahey of Ohio, very dark horse, polled...
Commentators recalled that last July, Mr. Wheeler had testified before a Senate committee (Chairman, Senator James A. Reed of Missouri) investigating Pennsylvania campaign expenditures (TIME, July 5, 1926). He admitted that for "a few years" just before the passage of the 18th Amendment the League had spent about $2,500,000 a year. From 1921-25, inclusive, the national body of the League (exclusive of .state branches) had spent $2,583,320.66 on prohibition enforcement...
Darwin's Bird. At the Field Museum in Chicago, the public may now see two specimens of a straight-billed reed "runner similar to those which Charles Darwin saw on his famed cruise in the Beagle in 1831. This species of bird, long believed to be extinct, was shipped from Uruguay by C. C. Sanborn two months ago, along with 3,342 other birds, reptiles, mammals...
...pros, so the cons. Meanwhile Washington correspondent Mark Sullivan, writing for the Republican New York Herald Tribune, said: "It requires pretty thoroughgoing Republican partisanship to deny that Senator Reed of Missouri and the other Democratic Senators were justified in asking President Coolidge to call a special session...