Word: reed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, hero or marplot* is conspicuous as the only Senator who, already famed, has increased his fame during the 69th Congress. He, a sizzling meteor among orators, a bastinado of the present trend of U. S. politics, has seized the role of Senator inquisitor, which Borah of Idaho, Walsh of Montana and the late LaFollette of Wisconsin once held. Everyone knows how Senator Reed revealed several millions in certified slush in Pennsylvania and Illinois (TIME, May 31, et seq.) ; how he dragged the Anti-Saloon League into the investigations and gave it its first important...
Thoroughly angered, Mr. Reed advanced toward Mr. Robinson, replied: "An insinuation is the last resort of a coward. The Senator has referred to me several times as venerable. I hope I am at least respectable. But the Senator neither here nor elsewhere need take my years into account...
Meanwhile, the Reed boom did not die. People cheered him, damned him, looked into his history...
...Senator Reed is a destructive, not a constructive force in lawmaking, but he is consistent. He believes that the reform wave of the last two decades, which would create laws and Federal bureaus to cure every popular ill, is mischievous. If this is continued to its ultimate complexity, every time a citizen has a toe ache he will write to his Congressman to put through a bill creating a staff of Federal doctors to soothe such maladies. Senator Reed would have better execution of the existing constitutional law and less reform, fewer "hordes of officials and snoopers who swarm over...
...James Orr Denby, nephew of onetime (1921-24) Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby, and lately appointed Second Secretary of the U. S. Legation in Peking;* to Phyllis Cochran, in Philadelphia. He in turn was to be best man for his best man, brother Charles, who will marry Rosamond Reed, daughter of Senator David A. Reed...