Word: reed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night in a tent pitched about a mile from Quemados, Cuba, thirsty mosquitoes sang their monotonous whining song; on a cot, Private John R. Kissinger lay awake. It was hot and sticky; he did not slap the stinging pests away. He had volunteered to Dr. Walter Reed, head of the U. S. Yellow Fever Commission, to subject himself to the bites of mosquitoes that had sucked the blood of men ill with the fever; in this way the Commission hoped to find whether the mosquito carried the deadly germ.* He made the offer knowing that his chances for life were...
...From his experiments, Dr. Reed found that the domestic mosquito (stegomyia fasciata) is the lone carrier of the yellow fever germ. The virus of the fever is a parasite that requires an alternate passage through a vertebrate and an insect host...
...Ford's opening reply, obviously written by his Voltaire-tongued chief counsel, Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, said that Mr. Sapiro was "a grafter, faker, fraud and cheat"; that his unprofessional acts and conduct have "rendered him obnoxious to the nostrils of American farmers...
...Senator Reed, having secured several favorable rulings from Judge Fred Raymond barring the racial issue from the suit, launched the defense with his most inflammatory and satiric senatorial style. Said he: "I think His Honor will tell you that the Hebrew race is not here bringing this suit, and that Mr. Sapiro has no right to come here and recover damages for the Hebrew race, and put the money in his own pocket as damage done to himself. This is not che case of former Gov. Lowden, or Mr. Lasker, or Mr. Baruch, or Mr. Lazinsky, or anybody else. This...
...Sapiro," continued Senator Reed, "wants a lot by way of 'smart' money for punitive damages. . . . I think that the evidence in this case will show you, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, that Henry Ford never saw those articles; that he has never read them to this blessed...