Word: reed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secretaries in advance, reads it from manuscript in a low sing-song voice like a child reciting a well-learned lesson. A Phipps speech empties the Senate press gallery. A rich socialite rather than a successful politician, he abhors personal publicity, shuns newsmen. His Senate friends: Pennsylvania's Reed, New Hampshire's Moses, Connecticut's Bingham. Democrats of the Senate are below his social notice...
About Washington he motors in rakish automobiles behind uniformed chauffeurs. With his crony Senator Reed he makes many a journey down the Potomac for fishing, duck-shooting, in a speedboat they own jointly. He smokes pipes and cigarets, chews tobacco. Cards he plays with hard, businesslike skill. He belongs to six clubs in Denver, four in New York, four in Washington...
...months of debate on the tariff, Senators spoke 4,219,000 words, which cost $131,900 to print in the Congressional Record. Democrats spoke for 221 hours, Republicans 158 hours, Insurgents 148 hours. Such were the statistics given the Senate last week by that master statistician, Chairman Reed Smoot of the Finance Committee, nominal pilot of the tariff bill...
Ernest Winder Smoot, youngest son of Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, was proud that his Irish setter. "Delaware Kate," had been judged the best dog in the Buffalo Kennel Club show...
...John Reed, young Harvard poet, went to Russia in 1918 to join the Soviet Revolution, died of typhus, was given a state burial just outside the walls of the Kremlin in Moscow...