Word: reed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eight opponents of the Wagner relief measure was Pennsylvania's Reed. Gloomed he: "When the historians of the future describe the decline and fall of the American Republic they will point to today as one of the milestones on the road of the disintegration of our country. . . . These are not loans to States. Not one penny will be paid back. We are lifting the lid of Pandora's box and we'll never be able to close it. It is a step toward making mendicants of our people...
Vainly osteopaths pleaded that they would be barred from surgery, medicine, drugs and liquor permits. In vain was a quotation from Dr. Louis S. Reed's report to the Committee on the Costs of Medical regarded it with contempt. In recent years the progressive evolution of osteopathy, the modification of its 'theory,' and the elevation of professional and educational standards have led doctors of medicine to assume a more tolerant and less hostile attitude. There is distinct evidence to the effect that with the further elevation of osteopathic standards the osteopaths will be assimilated into the regular...
...Conference in the Military Affairs Committee room was to iron out differences between the bill as passed by the House and by the Senate. There was drafted the law as taxpayers will actually feel it. In the trading across the table, Utah's grey old Reed Smoot, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and leading Senate conferee outargued all five Representatives. For his side he won higher normal and surtax rates on income (TIME, June 6), tariffs on copper and lumber as well as coal and oil (TIME, May 30), excise on tires, a levy on bank checks...
...since the Civil War has the U. S. had a general sales tax. Last September Pennsylvania's Senator Reed proposed a .5% tax on all retail sales, calculated it would bring the Government two billion dollars a year. President Hoover did not favor it. In March a 2.25% sales tax (estimated revenue: $595,000,000) was presented to the House by the Ways & Means Committee, damned as a measure to rob the poor, defeated...
Last week Senator Reed voted aggressively for each & every "nuisance" tax item that appeared. In addition, he got back of the second-class postal rate increases. What he expected soon happened. The potent motor, radio, cosmetics, and candy lobbies whose products had been singled out for taxation sent up a wounded howl. The proposed tax on bank checks trod on the toes of the American Bankers Association. Publishers, many of them on failure's brink, protested the postal rates...