Word: reed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator James A. Reed of Missouri last week had the time of his life. He was just digging into the expenditures lying under the recent Pennsylvania primary for Senator, and though his colleagues on the special investigating committee took some part, he, as often, had the centre of the stage...
Anti-Saloon League. Senator Reed called Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel and "legislative representative" of the Anti-Saloon League. The pretext for calling him was that he had sent the committee information that Wet interests had contributed to Mr. Vare's campaign but the real reason was that Senator Reed has been eager to dig into the affairs of the Anti-Saloon League. During an interval in the hearings, Mr. Wheeler looking rather worn, and wearing a too-large collar approached Mr. Reed...
...Missourian Reed also noted an expenditure of $16 for water at the Pinchot headquarters and solemnly demanded to know if that item was not padded...
...records and found that Vare, the light-wine and beer man, had spent upwards of $500,000, much of it in cash. Edward M. Kenna of Pittsburgh, of the Vare western headquarters, Allegheny County Treasurer for six years (at $6,500 a year), admitted after being pressed by Senator Reed, that he had contributed $20,000 of his own cash outright. Others in the Pittsburgh district donated amounts totaling...
Sweltering on through check stubs, typewritten balance sheets (suspiciously fresh and pat, thought Investigator Reed), the committee determined that the Pennsylvania primary had cost about $2,000,000 altogether. It was ten times as expensive as the celebrated Newberry outlay in Michigan and exceeded the entire cost of the 1924 Democratic campaign...