Word: reed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that American Express's President Reed doesn't read his own pamphlets on tourist etiquette. He advises tourists to be "ambassadors of good will" and, you say, realizes that Americans do not endear themselves to foreigners by spending money. Yet he rollicks through Germany and Italy in a plush, private railway car, and tries to prime the British economy with his lavish gratuities. MAURICE H. OPPENHEIM Mannheim, Germany...
Nikita Khrushchev had been born in a mud-and-reed hut in the village of Kalinovka on the Kursk steppe, where as a barefoot boy he had tended cattle. He grew up to have the Russian peasant's rough manners (even today he sometimes stuffs his mouth with food at public banquets, picks his teeth with his fingers). He was short (5 ft. 5 in.) and thickset with a round face and jug ears. He had small, dark, merry, merciless eyes and was as shrewd and crafty as he looked...
...occupy the field of sedition" when it passed the 1940 Smith Act and succeeding anti-subversive statutes. State laws are "in no sense uniform," and their enforcement could present "serious danger of conflict" with federal antisubversion operations. In the strongest dissent that Earl Warren has ever faced, Justices Stanley Reed, Sherman Minton and Harold Burton argued that "in the responsibility of national and local governments to protect themselves against sedition, there is no 'dominant interest' . . . Congress has not, in any of its statutes relating to sedition, specifically barred the exercise of state power to punish the same acts...
...Florida's Democratic Senator George Smathers. At Harvard Law School he won the prized presidency of the Law Review, graduated tenth in a class of 400 and caught the eye of New Deal Talent Scout Professor Felix Frankfurter. That landed him a job as Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed's law clerk. The next year Graham clerked for Frankfurter himself...
While more Americans than ever are going abroad and spending more, Reed constantly badgers U.S. and foreign governments to increase the bonanza by cutting passport and customs red tape. "Visas and other certificates and fees cost as much as $147," says he, "or 10% of the cost of the transportation for a trip to eleven countries." Reed points out that the 0.5% of disposable income spent by U.S. tourists on foreign travel has decreased from the 0.8% peak in 1929. But as travel becomes faster and cheaper, he predicts, foreign countries will lure more than 2,500,000 U.S. tourists...