Word: reed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last Puritan and the first New Dealer. It has turned out Autocrats of the Breakfast Table (Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1829), the dinner table (Lucius Beebe, 1927), the atomic table (J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1926), and the timetable (President Walter Franklin of the Pennsylvania Railroad). One of its alumni, John Reed, 1910, was buried in the Kremlin; another was Horatio Alger, 1852, known to his classmates as "Holy"' ("I shall have to move," said he in his first year, "to where there is more respect for decency...
Early in November of 1939, Jerome D. Greene, Secretary of the Corporation, touched off the issue by refusing permission to the now defunct John Reed Society to sponsor a lecture by Earl Browder in New Lecture Hall...
Greene objected on grounds of "taste," and suggested that the Society abandon its plans "lest questions of propriety should be raised." The Reed Society hit back in a formal reply, "It had been our understanding that the selection of speakers for undergraduate organizations was not one of Mr. Greene's duties," they said...
Within twenty-four hours the Reed Club had started a petition drive to rally student support. Organization spokesmen cited the College's action in the Norman Thomas affair of 1920. Indicted under a city free speech ordinance in Mt. Vernon, N.Y., Thomas had been invited by the old Liberal Club at that time as a substitute speaker for Eugene Debs, 1920 Socialist candidate for President, who was then in jail. The College had not interferred, and on the night of October 18, Thomas had spoken at the Union...
...spite of the objections to the police methods, the Supreme Court (splitting 5-4) upheld the conviction of Irvine. Written by Justice Jackson (Warren, Reed, Minton and Clark concurring), the majority opinion 1) held that the federal gambling tax stamp is not a license to violate state law, and 2) reaffirmed the Court's previous ruling that the Federal Constitution does not forbid the use in state courts of illegally seized evidence...