Word: reeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...liquor officially cleared from Windsor, Ont. for the U. S., as against 470,055 gallons for the same month last year. Commissioner Eble determined to reduce the flow even more. No newcomer to the Treasury, Commissioner Eble, whose home is Salt Lake City and whose political sponsor is Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, was defeated for the Utah Assembly in 1916. Later he remarked: "That's good. A victory would have changed my whole life and made me a politician." In the Army during the War he served as a captain, afterwards joining the Treasury's War Loan...
...State Department for several weeks. When Mississippi's Democratic Senator Pat Harrison first asked how many had been received, he received the answer: "About a dozen." He pressed for more definite information. First an erroneous figure of 38 protesting nations was given out. Then Chairman Reed Smoot of the Finance Committee was jockeyed into the necessity of revealing the true list. Some were complaints made by foreign governments as governments; others, merely the transmission of private commercial protests through governmental channels...
...White House. President Hoover called Senators Watson and Reed to the White House. When they returned to the Capitol, they were asked to explain the Presidents' tariff position. Senator Watson spoke with assurance of a "sane and sensible" tariff revision, of a "yardstick of adequate protection." Promptly from the White House came a denial that Senator Watson had been authorized to voice the Hoover views. Democrats jibed that the President must therefore favor "an insane and senseless" tariff revision without any reasonable measurement for protection. The White House the next day denied its first denial, which left the President...
...real fighting will be done by Senator Reed of Pennsylvania...
...Automobile Chamber of Commerce and of Packard Motor Co., Alfred P. Sloan Jr., president of General Motors, R. I. Roberge, export manager of Ford Motor Co., Walter C. White, president of White Co. (trucks) and other automotive men. They went at the invitation of Pennsylvania's Senator David A. Reed, head of the Senate Finance Committee's subcommittee on metals...