Word: reed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fairly vibrated with optimistic statements. Said Statesman Stimson: "We start out with high hopes of bringing our mission to a successful conclusion." Declared Delegate Reed: "I am sure of ultimate success. . . . There'll be less intrigue, less so-called diplomacy at this conference than at any international meeting heretofore." Admiral Pratt, a technical adviser, declared there were no technical difficulties, added: "We should sail for home with an agreement within two months...
...delegates held daily conferences, plotted and planned what they would do. Remarked Delegate Reed: "We have forgotten politics. We are just Americans...
Looking very pained at such language in the Senate, Senator Reed Smoot who himself has been making a study of obscene foreign literature to support customs censorship (TIME, Jan. 6), arose and began: "Oh, Mr. President?...
...handle committee vacancies the Sen ate majority maintains an unofficial group known as the Committee on Committees. This committee stalled in a deadlock when four of its members (Reed, Moses, Bingham, Deneen) voted for Senator Goff for the Finance Committee while four others (Capper, Nye, Oddie, McNary) voted for Senator La Follette. Declared Senator Reed Smoot : "I haven't said I'd resign as Chairman [of the Finance Committee] if Senator La Follette is named but I feel I should if the Committee falls into hostile hands...
Birthday. Senator Reed Smoot of Utah; at Washington. Age: 68. Said he: "I am drawing dividends on the life I have lived since boyhood. I've never, never drank liquor in my life. I've never smoked. I've always eaten good, plain food and loved work. I never was lazy and never saw a time when I didn't have plenty to do. I've wronged nobody...