Word: reed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Other members: J. P. Morgan & Co. Chairman Henry C. Alexander; National Cash Register Chairman Stanley C. Allyn; Bechtel Corp. President S. D. Bechtel; Standard Oil of Calif. Chairman R. G. Follis; Standard Oil (N.J.) Chairman Eugene Holman; General Electric Finance Committee Chairman Philip D. Reed; CBS President Frank Stanton; International Packers Ltd. Chairman A. Thomas Taylor...
Blasted daily by million-volt X rays aimed at the cancer in his abdomen, John Foster Dulles started his third week in Walter Reed Army Hospital thoughtfully reading the newspapers. The uncheering news: Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey had joined Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington in demanding that he resign as Secretary of State. Suddenly, in walked the President of the U.S., three gift books under his arm, and on his face a look of thoughtful concern. From then on, Dulles' week began to look...
...annoyed, students got riled up, President Hernan Siles Zuazo (in the drab, grey palace where he is guarded constantly by an unmanned machine gun) got worried, 10,000 copies of Time got burned, the American embassy got attacked. Summoned from Secretary Dulles' cloud chamber at Walter Reed Army Hospital, temporarisecretary Chris Herter, a genially proper Bostonian, expressed hope that "a magazine would not be permitted to disturb the traditionally good relations that have existed between our two countries and that the Bolivian Government officials would take all steps to avoid further incidents...
...pajamas and a hospital blanket, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles got into a wheelchair at Washington's Walter Reed Army Hospital just before 10:30 one morning last week, was wheeled down to a concrete-walled basement room 20 ft. square. A 1½-ton, lead-shielded door closed behind him as orderlies helped him onto a table. From the ceiling, doctors and orderlies pulled down the snout of a huge, telescope-like General Electric X-ray machine and pointed it at the patient's lower abdomen...
Died. Daniel Alden Reed, 83, Old Guard Republican Congressman from upstate New York, senior member and onetime chairman (1953-54) of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, foe of foreign aid, believer in high tariffs and low taxes; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Dan Reed was a direct descendant of John and Priscilla Alden and, in the Puritan tradition, a self-reliant conservative. Elected to the House in 1918, he was undefeated in 21 consecutive biennial elections, was topped in seniority only by Carl Vinson of Georgia (1914) and Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas...