Word: reed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commissioner Augustus O. Thomas of Maine urging that school children be made "internationally minded"; Dr. William Healy, director of the Judge Baker Foundation of Boston, urging mental health measures-until the legislative assembly of 800 adopted resolutions for the year. Chief of these was an endorsement of the Curtis-Reed bill, still pending in Congress, providing, not for Federal subsidy of education, but for putting Education on a footing equal to Agriculture, Commerce, War et al, in the nation's councils. The bill's backers would seek appropriations of $1,500,000 per annum to support the Secretary...
...Where did you get those figures?" snapped ever-snapping Senator Reed...
...undertake to say that they are utterly unreliable," snorted Mr. Reed...
...Senator Reed asked her if it was not disappointing to have the legislators refuse to vote funds for Prohibition enforcement after they had been elected with that understanding...
...Investment." Senator Reed later returned his attention to mild-mannered Counsel Wayne B. Wheeler of the Anti-Saloon League, asking him if he had been correctly reported in a speech three years ago to the effect that Drys had "invested" 35 millions in Prohibition. Mr. Wheeler thought that was approximately the amount, counting in all the different agencies embattled. He admitted that for "a few years" just prior to the passage of the Amendment the League's bills had come to $2,500,000 per annum. For the years 1921-25 inclusive, the national body of the League...