Word: reed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fortune were seized, his army was shattered, he lost face before all China. There still remained to him Peiping, and there until last week he remained. Now that Manchuria was lost he allied himself definitely with the Nationalist government of Chiang Kaishek. The Young Marshal was a broken reed, but on that reed the Nationalists leaned heavily
...shrewd lawyer discovered the loophole to his own great glee. When the Senate was framing the tax law, Pennsylvania's Senator Reed explained how it could be evaded and the method of evasion, with proper samples, was read into the Congressional Record. On June 4 the House also was told about it. The evasion was left open in order to aid big check-users, including especially the dairy companies. An average dairy writes over a million checks a year, many of them for less than $1. On a 50¢ check the 2¢ tax would be a prohibitive...
...that such reductions and eliminations would save the U. S. two billion dollars in ten years. The country reacted favorably to the President's proposal. "Fair and sound," declared Senator Borah. Senator Robinson, Democratic leader, said the plan would test the good faith of the Geneva Conference. Senator Reed, military affairs committee chairman, hoped it would be accepted. Senator King found it had "some merit." In Paris General Pershing called it "fair and just ... a concrete and statesmanlike plan which should receive immediate approval." Sour notes were struck by Tennessee's Senator McKellar ("Nonsense") and Mississippi...
...stop Roosevelt will require at least 385 votes, one-third of the convention. Delegations pledged to John Nance Gar ner, James Hamilton Lewis, George White. James A. Reed, William Henry Murray, Albert Cabell Ritchie and Harry Flood Byrd, plus his own vote, totaled 392. Could Al Smith hold the line with such a paper-thin margin? The Roosevelt men scoffed the idea...
...Rockefeller Institute. To each George Washington University last week gave his first kudos, honorary doctorates in science. Professor Gay made a speech, recalling the university's great bacteriologist -Theobald Smith, "responsible for five or several more fundamental discoveries in bacteriology, protozoology and immunity"; the late Walter Reed, who "told us in essence nearly all we know about yellow fever today"; Frederick Fuller Russell, who "perfected and first employed typhoid vaccination on a large scale." Passing from particular to general, Professor Gay praised the rarely praised medical scientist. More than half the professors of anatomy, physiology, bacteriology and biochemistry...