Word: reed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate must do justice not only to the people of Illinois, but to the United States of America," James A. Reed once counseled, when the upper Chamber was considering the expulsion of one of its members. Today at noon the Senate convenes again to do justice and exercise its rare and solemn power: the right to discipline a Senator...
Congress has seldom done justice to Senator Reed's advice, for the duty of chastising a member usually involves the danger of cleaving a party. For this reason, in exercising the disciplinary discretion it was granted under Article 1, Section 5 of the Constitution, the Senate has nearly always chosen to tolerate a member's venom so long as he has adhered to standard, clubmanlike behavior and not threatened to bring the Chamber to chaos. The successful censure motions and expulsions of this century have all gained steam from the fact that the guilty Senators disrupted the upper Chamber...
...Tigers, under Coach Jyma Reed, have Won six straight games, defeating East's best teams; losing to Wesleyan and Dartmouth before winning its just three games...
...lanky, boyish-looking man of 41, Ballantine has a Ph.D. from Harvard, seems the sort of scholarly man any scholarly college would want. But other colleges do not share Reed's almost fanatical belief in the power of the faculty and student body. Example: when Ballantine suggested that the faculty council should not have the final say on faculty salaries, his suggestion was rejected. Last June, without consulting the faculty, Ballantine temporarily suspended an art professor for refusing to answer questions before the Velde Committee. By a 38-9 vote, the faculty passed a resolution expressing a "grave weakening...
Last week the trustees picked as president Frank L. Griffin, 73, former mathematics professor. And the question still remains, said Duncan Ballantine bitterly, "does Reed really want a president...