Word: reed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible." So said President Wilson of his Senate foes-most of them having been regular Republicans like the late Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, and a few having been insurgent Democrats like Senator James A. Reed. But now the tide has swung around and President Coolidge, if he were inclined to squabble with the Senate, might have reason to make such a remark concerning the Republican insurgents. They hold the balance of power today in the 69th Senate; during the next two years in the 70th...
Speaking on "An Evaluation of American Colleges," W. T. Foster '01, Director of the Pollak Foundation for Economic Research, and former President of Reed College, compared Harvard to Reed, to the advantage of the latter...
...brought about last week when Major Brown, white, pleaded guilty as the leader of the lynching party which dragged Dave Wright, white, out of jail in August and killed him.* Eight other members of the party followed Major Brown's precedent by also pleading guilty. Thereupon, Judge Harry Reed of Douglas, Ga., sentenced Major Brown to life imprisonment and his companions to terms of from four to twenty years. Thus, Georgia had punished lynchers within 90 days of the lynching. Georgians were justly proud of Georgia justice. Meanwhile, in Aiken, S. C., there was little progress in the investigation...
...Reed Rules" drawn up in 1890 by Speaker Thomas B. ("Tsar") Reed, Representatives William McKinley and Joseph Cannon. * Founded by Joseph Cannon and his brother half a century ago, it made them worth more than a million dollars...
Last week he went into a deep sleep; after ten hours his heart muscles weakened; he died a "standpat" Republican, with something of the humanity of Abraham Lincoln, something of the fire of "Jim" Reed...