Word: reed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Superintendent Peter P. Walsh of the Pittsburgh police, a corpulent, red-faced person who professed ignorance of any seamy side that Pittsburgh may have and was very much flustered by Senator Reed's sharp questions about lining up the police for Candidate Pepper...
Wayne B. Wheeler, counsel for the Anti-Saloon League, who twice gave Senator Reed tit for tat, mocking the Senator's gestures of eyebrow and cigar with his own eyebrows and a busy pencil (See PROHIBITION...
...week ended, subpoenas were being issued or prepared by Senator Reed to call as witnesses officials of the Wet forces, Ku Klux Klan and churches in Pennsylvania. While Senator Reed thus added to his laurels as an investigator, one of his committeemen, Senator LaFollette, drafted and proposed a resolution to bar from the Senate any man sent there at a cost of $25,000 or more. Senator Neely, also on the committee, worked over a similar resolution setting the figure...
...there anything dull or docile about Senator James A. Reed of Missouri. Set to nose out the labyrinthine political finances of the Pennsylvania primaries (TIME May 31 et seq. THE CONGRESS,) he tested all winds eagerly for a whiff of larger game. Last fortnight his vigilance was rewarded; he coursed off after the Anti-Saloon League, in the person of its counsel, Wayne B. Wheeler, on the pretext of getting evidence of Wet moneys expended for Candidate Vare. Last week he was not astonished to find that this new quarry had a mate the gentle, bright-eyed Women...
...made these statements Mrs. George seemed serenely unconscious of the effect she was having upon her learned listeners. Their jaws were dropping, their eyes popping. Senator Reed masked his surprise, however, and upon Mrs. George's assertion that she had spent much time at Harrisburg, the state capitol, he said in an airy way, "You were not there lobbying," as if no one had ever heard of such an idea...