Word: reeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Speaker Longworth, Senator Harrison said: "He is approaching more nearly the tsarism of Speaker Reed than any speaker since those days. . . .* Is the Speaker praised . . . because his organization strangles and is now willing to kill the farm relief measure...
Vice President Curtis ruled that the Mallon vote report could go into the Record. Senator Reed, indignant, appealed from this ruling but could muster only nine Republicans to his support, seven of whom the Mallon report had showed voting for Lenroot...
...recalled that one year ago Newsman Theodore Huntley had printed in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette information about the executive session of the Senate which rejected the nomination of John Jacob Esch as Interstate Commerce Commissioner. Mr. Huntley is now Senator Reed's secretary...
Perceiving that he had blundered, Senator Reed shifted his attack from the Press to the unnamed tattling Senator. With correspondents glaring at him from the gallery, he admitted that he had "committed some offense" by his slur upon their ethics and added: "Ethically the action of the newspaper man is not comparable in its meanness with that of the Senator himself who violates the rules and then hides behind the newspaper man. . . . The person to punish is the Senator who is guilty and I hope the Senate will not get it into its mind that we are starting...
...Senator Reed, through his Secretary Huntley, sent a conciliatory message to the Press Gallery inviting correspondents to meet him for a discussion of "newspaper ethics ... to swap viewpoints." Fifty newsmen signed a retort that they would not confer with him, that they preferred to hear this "thoughts on newspaper ethics" from the Senate floor where he had referred to "the so-called ethics of a so-called profession...