Word: reed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dodo So-&-So. Against the opposition's clamor, Senator Reed began to make more specific explanations: "Now, an appeal to the horse sense of the Senate. When the American delegates to the London Conference were named, the British, Japanese, Italian and French Ambassadors undoubtedly reported back to their Governments the character of the delegates. It is open to assume that communications of this character were likewise made by Ambassador Dawes. He might have said: 'Sir What's His Name Snooks is a very shrewd man. He deals very closely and has to be watched...
Laird of Stanmore. Senator George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire, opposing the Treaty, suggested that Senator Reed was "wrongfully in possession of these papers," advised him to return them to the State Department. When Senator Moses refused to look at the documents in Senator Reed's office. Senator Reed declared : "I can arrange to have the Secretary of State, with an armed escort, if necessary, present the papers to the Senator with all the formality necessary...
Swinging out through Colorado, Campaigners Legge and Hyde entered western Kansas where, at Hays, Governor Clyde Reed was waiting to dispute their economic message. Governor Reed had last month asked the Farm Board to buy 25 million more bushels of wheat to up the market price (TIME, July 7). Chairman Legge had sharply reminded him that the Farm Board was no "Santa Claus!" In their hotel lobby Chairman Legge met Governor Reed, joshed him: "Don't mind Hyde and me. We're harmless. But watch out for these economists. They're chain lightning when you tangle with them...
Before a large coatless audience in the Hays Coliseum, Governor Reed opened the argument by bitterly flaying the Farm Board's crop reduction program. He declared western Kansas could raise nothing but wheat unless it returned to live stock, asked why crop limitation was not imposed east of the Mississippi River, criticized the Farm Board's "gospel of despair...
...Governor Reed took a personal dig at Chairman Legge as onetime head of International Harvester Co. when he declared: "Is it fair, is it sound public policy to ask the wheat farmer to leave his land idle to permit an expansion of the agricultural implement trade in foreign countries so as to enable those countries to better compete with the American wheat farmer?" On the platform beside him Chairman Legge clamped his cigar, made no answer. When his turn to speak came he explained that the Farm Board had already sunk in wheat twice the crop's proportionate share...