Word: reed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promised an ocean mail contract to the Philadelphia Mail Steamship Co. in which the Pennsylvania Railroad (225 shares of whose stock and 150 shares of Pennroad Corp. were listed among Mr. Brown's holdings) was interested provided a Senate resolution to hold up the contract was postponed. Senator Reed of Pennsylvania thereupon filibustered the Senate resolution to death last March so the bid could be opened and the award made. But the contract fell through because the steamship company had no ships...
...varsity wrestling the Harvard team will be made up of Edward T. Farley '36, in the 145 pound class, Robert D. Reed '36 in the 155, and Howland B. Stoddard '36, in the 125, all of whom are Sophomores without extensive experience. Donald V. McGranahan '35, Richard W. Amory '35, Richard G. Ames '34, captain, and Gridley Barrows '34 will also wrestle...
There was never a doubt about the bill's passage. The slashing attack upon it by a dogged minority was wasted effort from the start. Pennsylvania's Reed for the Republican opposition excoriated the stabilization fund and the power given the Secretary of the Treasury to use it to "stabilize" the government bond market: "It is that dishonest thing, creating an artificial market. . . . When a banker does it we cry 'Jail him!' When the Administration does it we say it's praiseworthy." Delaware's Hastings, using no nicer words, denounced seizure of the Reserve...
...Conant has been dropping in occasionally on Law School meetings. Once while the Law faculty was sitting for its portrait, he eased Dean Pound out of his accustomed place in the centre of the picture. Others in the picture: Samuel Williston, 72, foremost U. S. authority on contracts, Thomas Reed Powell, 53, Zechariah Chafee Jr., 48, Manley Ottmer Hudson, 47, Sam Bass Warner. Absent: Francis Bowes Sayre, 48, criminal law expert and son-in-law of Woodrow Wilson who last November went to Washington as Assistant Secretary of State; Felix Frankfurter, 51, author of the Securities Act, and this year...
...admission Promoter Rice has spent a total of $4,000,000 on lawyers' fees in various attempts to keep out of jail, and his attorneys have included Max D. Steuer and onetime U. S. Senator James Reed.† But in 1928 George Graham Rice was convicted of using the mails to defraud in the sale of Idaho Copper shares and sentenced to Atlanta Penitentiary for four years. An additional five-year sentence was suspended on condition that he report regularly to a probation officer after release...