Word: reed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adopted unanimously a resolution directing Senator James A. Reed's investigating committee to seize the Pennsylvania ballot boxes and report on the alleged fradulent election of William S. Vare...
...just a girl," beamed Vice President Dawes, on first meeting Marion Nevada Talley, prima donna. Then, taking a long drag at his pipe, he added: "Don't acquire temperament." Miss Talley enjoyed Washington last week; Senator Capper of Kansas escorted her about the city; Senator Reed claimed her for Missouri; Senator Bruce, music lover, rushed up to be introduced; Senate page boys gaped; Mrs. Coolidge went to her concert...
...Secretary Mellon needed a wiseman to explain his tax reduction plan to Congressional committees in 1924, he called for Mr. Gregg and said in effect: "Go, young man, to the Capitol and enlighten those grey-heads for me." After the committee hearings, Mr. Gregg sat beside and advised Senator Reed Smoot (himself ranked as the greatest financial authority in Con- gress) while the tax bill was being debated in the Senate. The Coolidge Administration is proud of the 1924 tax law-and so is Mr. Gregg, no doubt. In 1925 he was made Solicitor in the Bureau of Internal Revenue...
...Heard Senator Reed of Missouri deliver satiric observations on the misty emanations of the official White House Spokesman (i.e., President Coolidge...
When excitement at Washington was at its apogee, last week, over the Nicaraguan situation (See p. 8) a sarcastic hope was voiced by Senator Reed (see above) that the President would not express himself concerning Nicaragua and Mexico exclusively through "The Spokesman of the White House," but would tell Congress unequivocally what was in his mind. After letting the Senators fulminate for a few days longer President Coolidge granted their wish. He caused to be read to the House and Senate a message which repeated over his signature almost exactly what he had told the press for weeks...