Word: reed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Struik plans to wago an extensive campaign for the repeal of this and similar laws through this case. He hopes to enlist support from University faculty members and students here. In past years, he has spoken to the John Reed Club, a University Marxist discussion group, and other similar organizations...
They live in mud huts, sleep on reed mats, dress in rags, eat the bread of the poor (there are two types of bread in Egypt, the good white bread from Egypt's abundant wheat being available only to the rich...
COLONEL HOWARD REED ('31) COLONEL FREDERICK TERRELL ('36) OKINAWA...
...another tough week for the trustees of the Civil Rights Congress bail fund. In Washington, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stanley F. Reed refused bail to Trustees Frederick Vanderbilt Field, Dashiell (The Thin Man) Hammett and W. Alphaeus Hunton while they appealed from convictions for contempt of court. Justice Reed went a step further. He ruled that the U.S. has a perfect right to slap them behind bars for refusing to tell where they got about $450,000 which has been posted as bail for Commies in the past three years...
...ruling that might have been a direct reply to the Communist Party's shrieks about civil rights, Justice Reed held that when the trustees stood bond for the Communists, they became "in truth the jailors of the fugitives, responsible for their appearance. As such, they had a relation . . . that justified the court's requirement that they give evidence as witnesses . . . A witness cannot trifle with the court or make its processes a mockery." Unlike most bail providers, the trustees hadn't even winced when four of the Communists jumped bond...