Word: reed
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...grapevine. The first was the hot dope that Ike wanted to extend the excess profits tax beyond its expiration date. The second was the cold speculation on parliamentary devices which the House leadership could use to get Ike's tax program around New York's Daniel Alden Reed, chairman of the Ways & Means Committee. Both stories were carefully calculated (by G.O.P. leaders) to reach the ears of old Chairman Reed, who was stoutly committed to a cut in both excess profits and individual income taxes by July...
Early next morning, Dan Reed caught the next psychological blow. A secretary called from the office of House Speaker Joe Martin and said: "The speaker is calling a meeting of the Republican members of the Ways & Means Committee for 1:30 this afternoon. Will Mr. Reed be present?" It sounded like an innocent question, but Dan Reed now knew for sure that Joe Martin was ready to move in, if necessary with all the speaker's power, to back Ike's program...
...Reed quickly rounded up the Republicans on his own committee, who realized that their prestige would be seriously hurt if the House leadership made a complete end run around them. Said Pennsylvania's Republican Representative Dick Simpson: "Let's grab the ball." Unanimously, the 14 agreed to hold hearings on extending the excess profits tax, as Ike requested...
Michael Joseph Halberstam '53 of Dunster and Torrington, Conn., has been awarded the Dana Reed Prize for the best piece of writing to appear in an undergraduate publication during the past year...
This is the fourth consecutive year that a CRIMSON article has won the Dana Reed award...