Word: reed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Missouri's onetime Democratic Senator James A. Reed welcomed the lawyers to Kansas City, saying, "In this strange period in our history, the body politic is chained to the political operating table and the dreamers of dreams and the seers of visions are permitted at will to cut and probe and slash the helpless victim." Two days later Nebraska's anti-New Deal Senator Edward R. Burke appealed to the legal profession's self-pity: "There was a time when the banker was the favorite 'whipping boy.' The welts of the lash upon the . . . banker...
Eliot 7: l.e., Hunsaker. Uihlein, Blaine, Hadden, Prario, Batchelder, Reed. q., Oates. White, Bluns Trope. Substitutes: Schutzer, Hornig, Wahlke...
...future interest is the annual dinner, which will be held this year on Friday evening proceeding the Dartmouth football game, October 22, Among the speakers will be President Conant, one of Yale's greatest players, John Reed Kilpatrick, who is now president of the Madison Square Garden Corporation in New York...
...called" by the Church as a missionary for two years' service is an honor which pious Mormons hardly ever refuse. Such saints as Reed Smoot and Marriner Stoddard Eccles are proud to have done missionary work without pay. There are today some 2,000 picked Mormon missionaries working in 23 countries, always traveling in pairs of which the more experienced is the "Senior Companion." A Mormon salestalk emphasizes the practicality of Mormonism, its orthodox belief in God and Jesus Christ, its healthiness with its teachings against alcohol, tobacco, tea & coffee, "refined foods." Once convinced by a missionary that "silly...
...fitting crown to a career which to them long seemed bound in a different direction. Born in Manhattan, the only child of well-to-do Jewish parents, young Walter was privately schooled, taken regularly to Europe, sent to Harvard. There in a class (1910) that included John Reed, Heywood Broun, Kenneth MacGowan, Robert Edmond Jones, Lippmann worked so hard and well that he finished his course in three years, spent his fourth year as assistant to Philosopher George Santayana. William James thought him a bright boy. But it was a British social philosopher visiting at Harvard, Graham Wallas (author...