Word: reed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Capitol, reports spread that Senator Reed, a delegate to the London Conference who had seen the secret papers, had said their production would help the Treaty but would also stir up "personal animosities and ill-will." This led to a generally accepted Senate surmise that in the documents exchanged between President Hoover and Premier MacDonald, the President had remarked with cutting candor upon the personal and political peculiarities of the very people now opposing the Treaty, had discussed Admirals and Senators and Big-Navy propagandists in terms so frank as to stir up a hornet's nest...
...votes, no matter how reluctant, of Senators Reed and Grundy determined the issue. When the balloting started, the galleries were crammed and visiting Representatives stood five deep around the chamber wall. Breaths were held as the roll was called. There were 44 "ayes." The "noes" totalled 42. Five pairs of Senators kept off the record by cancelling each other's votes. Five Democrats (Florida, two, Louisiana, two, Wyoming one) lined up with the Republican majority. Had the pair of Pennsylvania protectionists voted as they talked the bill would have been killed...
Harvard Club of Oklahoma. President: Mark R. Everett, Ph.D. '24, University of Oklahoma Medical School, East 13th St., Oklahoma City. Secretary-Treasurer: Paul S. Reed '15, 1448 South Denver Ave., Tulsa...
Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania ... LL.D...
Many a young member of Congress, serving on the Committee on Lighthouses or whatnot, is known only as a Representative, finds in his office his major reputation. Given sufficient ability and re-elections, however, and he may rise to the finance committee, may become a Reed, a Cannon, a Longworth. As with representatives of the People, so with representatives of the Utilities. The head of a small light & power company is a Utility Man, but his name and influence may extend no farther than his city limits. As time passes, however, he may acquire membership on more and more important...