Word: reed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oral argument was definitely less than lawyerlike. Rather than risk his case in the uncertain hands of his Solicitor General, Attorney General Cummings put on his cutaway, striped trousers and derby and marched to the bar in person. Flanking him at this Thermopylae were competent but uninspired Stanley Reed, general counsel for RFC, and uninspired Angus D. Maclean, Assistant Solicitor General...
...argument by questions from the bench. Therefore the real excitement did not begin until Mr. Cummings had finished his stump speech. Then the Justices who had asked only a few questions of the Government's opponents began to pop questions right & left at Messrs. Maclean and Reed. Some court room observers got an impression that the Justices' questions were hostile to the Government's case. Others felt that the Court, friendly to the Government's position, was trying to bring out the best possible arguments from the fog that enveloped the Government's presentation...
...jingle might go on indefinitely, with Senator David Reed whose scalp was the biggest snagged by Franklin Roosevelt in the election, with Schoolman William A. Wirt who found a Red conspiracy in the Brain Trust; with Banker Jackson Eli Reynolds who made peace between financiers and the White House; with Airman Charles Augustus Lindbergh who protested against airmail cancellations; with others & others...
Intending to surprise her German parents, whom she had not seen for eight years, Stenographer Sittell recently threw up her Manhattan job with the law firm of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed where she had taken dictation from Count Rene when he worked in their office. Sailing for Paris, she got a job with Count René before proceeding to surprise her parents. Last week she arrived at Schoenberg, a tiny German customs depot on the Saar border and, as usual, said what she conscientiously thinks...
...Press picked him as the best-dressed man in the U. S. Mr. Loew has been cited for his sartorial splendor on numerous occasions but last week he stepped out ahead of such tailors' patrons as Publisher Conde Nast, Philadelphia's Edward Townsend Stotesbury, Senator David A. Reed, Douglas Fairbanks...