Word: reed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kansas City, Missouri's white-crowned, red-faced onetime U. S. Senator James A. ("Jim") Reed was defending a Mrs. Myrtle Bennett, on trial for the murder of her husband (TIME, March 9). In the courtroom Photographer George Cauthen of the Journal Post made a "shot." Senator Reed. 69, slapped the jaw of Photographer Cauthen, 30. Next day appeared on the frontpage of the Journal Post an editorial headed "Techy Jim": ". . . If the former Senator were younger, the Journal Post would feel like firing George Cauthen . . . for not breaking his camera over his assailant's head...
Because the Independents will accept anything except the obviously obscene, the show is always a carnival for propagandists with a message. Chief of these exhibits last week was a huge cartoon, painted on muslin by twelve members of the John Reed Club, an organization of communistically inclined writers & artists. Entitled Washington Market it showed a pudgy Herbert Hoover knee-deep in a junk wagon labelled U. S. A. Prominent was a large dead fish, labelled FISH (meaning Red-hunting Congressman Hamilton Fish of New York). Temporarily tacked to Mr. Hoover's left hand was a loose piece of paper...
...lost. He battled for an embargo on oil imports and lost. The close of the Senate session found him tall and stubborn, battling no less vainly for a resolution whereby a Senate committee would investigate the oil industry. Chief objector to this resolution was Pennsylvania's Senator Reed, good friend of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, whose family controls Gulf Refining Co., which in turn, according to Senator Thomas, fears tariffs, embargoes, investigations. If Senator Reed would not let the oil resolution pass, vengeful Senator Thomas would block everything else...
...again in 1929, at the closings of the 69th and 70th Congresses, it was Senator Reed who filibustered-against campaign investigations, against postponement of National Origins...
Onetime Senator James A-("Jim") Reed of Missouri struggled, pistol in hand, with another attorney before the jury of a Kansas city court. His object: to prove that a Mrs. Myrtle A. Bennett, who is accused of murdering her husband during a squabble over a bridge-game, might have fired accidentally...