Word: reed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appointment of Solicitor General Stanley Reed to the Supreme Court gives President Roosevelt reasonable assurance that he can now carry out his program unhampered by constant judicial interference. The United States needs a high court that can adjust legal theory to economic reality in the face of rapidly changing conditions. We can no longer afford the cultural lag that has so long afflicted the judiciary...
Senator Vandenburg's comment that the nomination is excellent "in view of the circumstances" is a favorable reflection on the President's good judgment in selecting Reed. Mr. Roosevelt might have picked a senatorial progressive who has fought many political battles for the administration or be might have chosen a brilliant professor who has done much to reshape legal thinking. But such an appointee would inevitably have been scored as just a partisan agent or an impractical theorist. By appointing a lawyer who has won the admiration of administration critics, the President has accomplished his purpose without offending a large...
...first to get photographs of Chinese Soviet life, the first to see its army in action, the first to get from its leaders a story of its 6,000-mile "Long March" from Kiangsi to Shensi. As a piece of journalistic enterprise Red Star Over China ranks with John Reed's Ten Days that Shook the World, tells a story scarcely less sensational...
...means so vividly written as Reed's masterpiece, Red Star Over China is slowed down by essays on Chinese history, discussions of education and propaganda, accounts of critical battles fought in inaccessible country. Delighting in the ramifications of Chinese politics, Edgar Snow seems to step aside to discuss every war lord who fought Chiang Kaishek, made peace with him, got mad, led a campaign against the Reds or accepted an alliance with them to fight Japan...
...Snow's book is less exciting than Reed's, its material was gathered under even more difficult conditions. On his way to Soviet territory, Snow traveled first to Sian where, six months later, Chiang Kai-shek was to be kidnapped.* He found Communist sympathizers all over the place, a Red Army commander, with a price on his head, on the staff of Chiang Kai-shek's commander. After he had gone through the Red lines he was followed (although he did not know it) by roving White "bandits" bent on robbery. The Reds received reports that...