Word: reed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late Thos. B. Reed, ex-Speaker of the House of Representatives, many years ago referred to Tom Watson of Georgia, and other Populist Congressmen as "The wild ass's colts...
...butt of Speaker Reed's observation was not Georgia's Watson but the late Congressman John Alfred Pickler of South Dakota. Not in the House but privately outside, Speaker Reed, habitually polite of speech, said: "I have read and heard much of the Wild Ass's Colt of the Desert, but I never had any clear conception of what manner of animal it really was till I saw Pickler in action...
Historically the Sales Tax is a product of the economist's study. Its prime feature is its universality. The Wartime excise ("nuisance") taxes on a few commodities were a limited form of sales tax. Such conservative Republican Senators as Utah's Smoot and Pennsylvania's Reed have from time to time proposed it as an equitable levy but have never pushed it because of what appeared to be a solid U. S. tradition against direct Federal taxes on everybody. Any wealthy man who agitated for a sales tax was suspected of trying to wriggle out of income taxes. Chief sponsor...
...will choose between either Herbert Hoover and Calvin Coolidge as Republican standard bearers or one of the nine Democrats listed on the ballot: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Alfred E. Smith, John N. Garner, Albert C. Ritchie, Newton D. Baker, William H. Murray, Samuel Seabury, Robert J. Bulkley, or James A. Reed. Men will also be asked to indicate their party sympathies...
...list of the four men who received the greatest number of votes in each party in the Crimson's presidential primary straw vote four years ago. Republicans Herbert Hoover 1841 Charles G. Dawes 230 Frank O. Lowden 183 Charles Curtis 52 Democrats Alfred E. Smith 1380 James A. Reed 363 Albert C. Ritchie 274 Thomas J. Walsh...