Word: reed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vary the volume further and more finely by pressing the left pedal. The right (sustaining) pedal is like that of a standard piano, will hold a tone until it dies away. A second row of dampers, controlled by a lever, makes the tone sound like that of a reed organ...
...asked for appropriations by Congress for relief of the needy in distant parts of the world. It would seem to be most opportune that you should do no less for our own needy here at home." Flaying his Governor for such a demand, Pennsylvania's Senator David Aiken Reed retorted, as an Administration spokesman: "Governors should not and must not evade their responsibility. Why should they send appeals to a harassed President to do for them what they ought to do for themselves? Pennsylvania is solvent, her credit is perfect. To call Congress would only encourage legislative quackery...
...From Utah came an ominous rumble when Senator Reed Smoot, no less regularly Republican than Senator Reed, remarked: "We should raise sufficient funds to feed the hungry, even if we have to issue bonds...
...Within 48 hours the Board's "one-out-of-three" scheme was dead on its hands and the Board lapsed into a troubled silence. Meanwhile came two develop ments which boded ill for the Board's existence after the opening of Congress. Pennsylvania's Senator Reed drafted a bill, supposedly with some form of Ad ministration backing, to abolish the Board altogether. The potent American Farm Bureau Federation announced that, in its opinion, the Farm Board after two years had failed to control surplus production; that therefore the Farm Bureau would resume its fight for the equalization...
Georgia sent him to the Senate in 1807 where he served Secretary of the Treasury Gallatin in much the same way as Pennsylvania's Senator Reed today serves Secretary Mellon. Despite charges of corruptly favoring certain banks in the 1819 panic his friends hailed him as "the greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Alexander Hamilton...