Word: reeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smith, slim Illinoisian, were charged 1) with using too much money to get nominated, and 2) with using money improperly (in Mr. Vare's case) and accepting money improperly (in Mr. Smith's). The charges stood substantiated by the Senate's own investigating (the famed James Reed) committee. The issues which towered were 1) what right had the Senate to judge a state's representative ? 2) what procedure should the Senate follow...
...upon it like an ostler at his master's wedding, awkward but proud, mortified but grinning, sheepish without shame. There was much in store for him to endure ? the prodding of Mississippi's Harrison, the cold twitting of Nebraska's Norris, the rabbit-punching of Missouri's Reed. The lat ter chewed softly on his cigar, glancing only now and again across the aisle where sat the other Reed, haggard but urbane, threatening to fili buster for his colleague...
...Ferreting into campaign funds in Pennsylvania Senator James A. Reed and his committee discovered that the W. C. T. U. had raised $250,000 for a "Governor's Enforcement Fund" after the Legislature had refused to vote money for Governor Gifford Pinchot to enforce Prohibition. The W. C. T. U. had an office in the State Capitol and paid for prosecutions brought in the name of Pennsylvania. National Anti-Saloon funds for assisting Prohibition enforcement from 1921 to 1925 were about $500,000 per annum-exclusive of millions raised by state Leagues. (TIME, July...
...Coolidge gave a portrait of the late Calvin Coolidge Jr. to the Walter Reed Hospital (Washington). It seemed appropriate to do so because he had anticipated a military career and because he died in Walter Reed Hospital, where War veterans are rehabilitated...
Married. David Aiken Reed Jr., 24, son of U. S. Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, to Nancy Bell Ross, onetime wife of Elmer W. Ross, St. Louis public accountant, and mother of a six-year-old; secretly in St. Louis, a month ago. Last week they left for Santiago, Chile, where he is employed. Said Senator Reed to reporters who suggested that he had disinherited Reed Jr.; "A pack of fairy tales...