Word: reed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act safely on the statute books, its Senate coauthor, Reed Smoot, chairman of the Finance Committee, last week departed from Washington for a rest and a bit of golf" at Provo, Utah, his home. Before going Senator Smoot arose in the Senate Chamber to announce...
...disability; practically it was a headlong plunge to pensions for veterans disabled in civil life. Under it a veteran stricken with gout on Dec. 31, 1929 would be compensated equally with a soldier who lost his legs in the first week of fighting. In the debate Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, an A. E. F. veteran who opposed the Bonus, boldly declared that he was ready now to shift the whole governmental aid policy to a pension basis...
...some months, except for a local radio speech, has the voice of Missouri's white-headed, red-faced, raven-throated James A. Reed been heard in the land. But last week, on the eve of sailing for a European holiday, he emitted one of the jibes for which he was long famed as Senator and arch-Democrat. Said...
...time of the Conference that Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson leaned heavily on British diplomats and that all major feats of statecraft were performed by Messrs. Hoover and MacDonald before the Conference opened. From further remarks of Mr. Wakatsuki in Tokyo last week it appeared that Senator Reed of Pennsylvania was not the man who brought the Japanese- to whom he was assigned-around. The Chief Delegate said that after his subordinate, Ambassador Matsudaira, and Senator Reed had become deadlocked he, Reijiro Wakatsuki, went over their heads to James Ramsay MacDonald and reached the final compromise...
Alice Roosevelt Longworth won $20 from Senator Henry Justin Allen of Kansas in a bet that Senator David Aiken Reed, of Pennsylvania, wavering, would vote for the new tariff bill...