Word: reed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, in Illinois, primary slush oozed over the $1,000,000 mark, finally stopped dripping- chiefly because Voltaire-tongued Investigator-Senator James A. Reed had left for his Kansas City home, not to do any more prodding until October. Ten days in a Chicago courtroom had taught Mr. Reed (a reader of Rabelais) many things: he saw the tortuous workings of Illinois political machines, he was given an object lesson in munificence by public utility potentates (TIME, Aug. 9), he added a few choice items to his ever-increasing stock of Anti-Saloon League lore, he heard of gunplay...
Those who challenged the jurisdiction of Senator Reed and his Campaign Expenditures Committee, and who may have to answer to the Senate on charges of contempt of court, are: Samuel Insull, public utility archangel, who admitted giving $183,000 to successful candidate Frank L. Smith and to other friends and factions; Edward H. Wright, Chicago Negro boss, who is the Second Ward; States Attorney Robert E. Crowe, prosecutor of famed Loeb and Leopold, now the leader of the Crowe-Barrett gang; Daniel J. Schuyler, attorney for Mr. Insull; Thomas W. Cunningham of Philadelphia, who openly defied the committee in behalf...
Among those who faced Senator Reed on the witness stand last week were...
...Senator Reed: "Mayor, what is a bunko party? I know the game, but I never knew it was used as an amusement...
Senator James A. Reed, Democratic quizzer extraordinary from Missouri, glanced at Senator "Sonny" LaFollette seated below the salt (Caesar to his Lepidus), then shifted glint-eyed gaze to a Negro slouching easily back in his chair. The Senator: "Do you represent the second Chicago ward?" The Negro: "I am treasurer; 1 am chairman; I keep the books; I appoint and dismiss all officers; I am the second ward." Edward H. Wright, colored member of the Illinois Commerce Commission, scorned the U. S. Senate Committee sitting in Chicago to investigate "slush funds of the recent Illinois primaries" (TIME, July...