Word: reed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Confused at this adverse tariff turn, Senator Reed Smoot, in charge of the bill, marched back to conference, where was patched up a second compromise under which only the President would have power to flex rates on specifications (limited to 50% up or down on the substantive law) supplied by the Tariff Commission...
...Hoover carried 17 men as weekend guests. Mrs. Hoover, slowly recovering from her seriously sprained back, was still unable to accompany him. Hard rain again interrupted the President's fishing. Four Senators abruptly hastened back to Washington to carry a mysterious message from President Hoover to Utah's Senator Reed Smoot on the final Tariff compromise...
...Senate committees last week began a study of the provisions and implications of the London Naval Treaty. The document was officially before the Foreign Relations Committee where a friendly attitude toward it was manifested by members, including Pennsylvania's Senator Reed and Arkansas' Senator Robinson, both delegates to the London parley. The Naval Affairs Committee, under the nervous leadership of Maine's Senator Hale, conducted hearings in an atmosphere hostile to the agreement which was, under the Senate rules, none of its official business. Senator Hale, a big Navy man, did everything possible to develop the worst...
Last week they returned to the Senate where Generalissimo Reed Smoot asked that they be released from their instructions, that the Senate recede from its demand for these two controverted items. He warned that the House and the White House would not relax their opposition and that, unless the Senate changed front, the Tariff Bill was as "dead as Julius Caesar...
Memorial Day will be observed at Harvard with special services at noon Friday, with Dean W. L. Sperry in charge. Thomas H. Reed, professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, and lecturer on government at Harvard during the second half of the current academic year, will deliver the principal address. A special musical program has been arranged by Professor, A. T. Davison...