Word: reed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been subject to considerable unfavorable publicity which we believe may be unwarranted. We feel that a resume such as we speak of will set some of these matters straight in the minds of your readers. W. A. ALLAN S. H. MILLER R. G. STERNLOF C. T. SPRAGUE E. G. REED...
Influenced by the need of a simpler and less expensive method of taking posture pictures, Norman W. Fradd, Director of the Hemenway Gymnasium, and M. C. Reed of the Eastman Kodak Company, in 1925, perfected a means by which satisfactory silhouettes were produced. A camera man was obtained from the Eastman Kodak Stores, Inc., and the resulting machine was the silhouetteograph...
...paper) compared the campaign to "a thief in the night," flayed the substitution of "a poisonous alkaloid" for "a nourishing food." Advertising men (through Advertising & Selling, a trade paper) discussed Good Testimonials v. Bad Testimonials, thought that Bad Testimonials were wrecking public confidence in advertising. Utah's Senator Reed Smoot (long interested in beet sugar & its tariff) said that there had not been such an orgy of buncombe since public opinion rose in its might and smote the drug traffic. He proposed that tobacco should be included in the Food & Drug Act and that food and drug advertising...
...Battle of Schedule Five of the Senate's tariff war, Old Guardsmen, led by Generalissimo Reed Smoot, chairman of the Finance Committee, had stormed the redoubt of the Democratic-Progressive Republican coalition with a demand for a higher sugar rate. The fighting was fierce and confused, with troopers switching from side to side like the tail of a fly-bitten horse. When the lines were reformed and counted, it was found that the Old Guard had been repulsed...
...five principal U. S. delegates-Stimson, Adams, Reed, Robinson, Morrow-and their wives the Star said, "The men seem to be fatherly, homely folk and their wives motherly and even more homely." Lest it should be misunderstood, the Star added, for the benefit of visitors weak in the King's English, that "The connotation of 'homely' changes in crossing the Atlantic, and in England has of course no reference to facial appearance...