Word: reeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week was farewell week in the Senate. Maryland's bumbling Bruce gave a curse for his valedictory (see p. 14). Missouri's ruddy-cheeked, silver crested, indignant Reed, read George Washington's Farewell Address, in splendid voice, and then offered the senate a political tombstone...
...tombstone for Reed but a tombstone by Reed was his 37,000 word report on his special committee's long-drawn investigation of the manner in which William S. Vare of Philadelphia got nominated for and elected to the Senate...
...sense, it was a tombstone for Reed after all, because hardly anyone bothered to read the report and almost no one remained in the chamber to hear the Senator dilate and expatiate and ejaculate upon it. It was an old, oft-told story and much though they used to like Senator Reed, his colleagues could not bear to hear him go all through the Vare iniquities again...
...report told, and Senator Reed rehearsed, how Mr. Vare, whom the late Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania used to call "the ashcart statesman" because he once hauled ashes and garbage in Philadelphia, spent colossal sums to wrest the nomination from Gifford Pinchot and George Wharton Pepper (who both used colossal sums themselves...
...Money, Anti-Money. It is difficult to say what Congressmen might speak for the money power, especially in an argument which lists money against money. Ogden Livingston Mills and James Wolcott Wadsworth were moneymen, but they have departed from the House and Senate, respectively. Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, Secretary Mellon's haggard, Princeton-educated protege, might stand as the senatorial moneyman. In the House are New York's Snell, a florid, solid cheesemaker; Rhode Island's Richard S. Aldrich, son of the late great Senator Nelson Aldrich; and Pennsylvania's Harry Estep, a young...