Word: reed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subsequent vacancies, however, were filled by a liberally-minded Solicitor General, Stanley Reed, and United States Senator Hugo Black. These two new Justices both declined to make any public statements until last week. Justice Reed then disclosed to an undergraduate reporter his views on the approaching Yale_Harvard-Princeton conference on Government and Business to be held at Yale this month. Justice black personally declined to make any statement...
...Justice Reed referred to the undergraduate enterprise as the best way the college undergraduate can keep himself in touch with current topics of national importance." He stressed the significance of obtaining this information concerning politics, economics and foreign affairs in "a first-hand manner," rather than "through textbooks and periodicals which are often out of date before reaching the hands of the public...
...Justice Reed remarked on the advantageous setting of this student conference, carried forward by the daily publications of three of the nation's leading universities. These colleges make possible what the Justice termed "a broad, general knowledge of economic and political developments, which enables one to gain the greatest benefit from this mingling of national figures and college undergraduates...
Besides these events to view with alarm, Messrs. Rockefeller, Fosdick and their fellow trustees had, however, one particular achievement at which they could point with pride: a vaccine to conquer yellow fever. From 1900 (when the late Dr. Walter Reed proved that a mosquito transmitted yellow fever from man to man) until 1932, sanitary experts fought yellow fever by taking measures to prevent mosquito breeding. In 1932. however, Brazilian medical men discovered yellow fever cases in jungles where no yellow fever mosquitoes existed. How jungle yellow fever is transmitted remains a mystery...
...majority of his fellows, including Hugo Black, saw eye-to-eye on the year's most important case-the test of the constitutionality of the registration requirement of the Public Utility Act of 1935. By a vote of 6-to-1 (sick Justice Cardozo and Freshman Justice Reed not participating; Justice McReynolds, as expected, dissenting) the Court upheld SEC in its test suit against Electric Bond & Share...