Word: reed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Connelly Holder, Parker, l.t. r.t., Manning Adams, Ginsberg, l.g. r.g., Gray, Thomassine Domesek, Brown, e. e., Almquist Ulfelder, Brooks, r.g. l.g., Zeitz Herman, Beaumont, r.f. l.t., Whittemore Crocker, Crownshield, McCanon, r.e. l.e., Heockle Dearborn, Gallagher, q.b. q.b., pignore Corcoran, Tucker, Hutchins, l.h.b. r.h.b., Driscoll, Jackson Dustan, Keville, Reed, r.h.b. l.h.b., Grabes, Downy Lee, Churchill, f.b. f.b., Handy...
...sandy hair. When he was 11, Aiken saw his father kill his mother and then commit suicide. He was Class Poet (1911) at Harvard, among a generation that included Poets Thomas Stearns Eliot, the late Alan Seeger, Journalists Walter Lippmann, Robert Benchley, Heywood Broun, the late Radical John Reed. Few graduates stick to their undergraduate determination to be a man of letters: Aiken did. Last year, after reaping the Pulitzer Prize for his Selected Poems, he took his wife and three children (John, Jane, Joan) to live permanently in England. Nearsighted, silent, excruciatingly shy, Conrad Aiken is a serious, hard...
Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania is a member of the Senate Finance Committee. He is considered Secretary Mellon's mouthpiece on Capitol Hill. Senator Reed contended that the income tax is outmoded, that a general tax of ½ of 1% should be applied to all retail sales...
...states have a sales tax on gasoline, no State has a sales tax on every article of trade. During the War and after, the U. S. taxed a variety of luxury commodities from automobiles and candy to cigar holders and Mah-Jongg sets. The Reed plan would tax everything. The sale of a $6 pair of shoes would net the Treasury 3?. Senator Reed estimated such a tax, bitterly opposed by retailers, would net the U. S. $2,000,000,000 per year or about half of its operating costs...
Such talk from two regular and conservative Republicans sounded almost like heresy to their G. O. P. colleagues. Had Messrs. Reed & Bacharach forgotten that a Presidential election was coming, that any tax increase would handicap President Hoover in that race and make campaign cash collections doubly difficult? To offset their words, Senate Leader James Eli Watson trundled down to the White House, talked long and earnestly with President Hoover about taxation. He emerged to use the White House lobby as a sounding board for his fiscal ideas...