Word: reeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...compact was hardly made before it was attacked in the Senate by the same group which attacked the Italian debt settlement. Senator James A. Reed of Missouri was particularly vigorous. He subjected Senator Smoot to a grilling examination on how the agreement was arrived at. He fiercely attacked the conduct of the American commission in making the agreement...
None the less the debt commission pursued its course. The day after Senator Reed's exclamations it made public a settlement which it had just made of the Jugoslavian debt of $62,850,000. Interest is suspended in the early years, beginning with ? of 1% at the 13th year and advancing to 3½% in the last 27 years of the 62 year period. In all $95,177,635 will be paid in principal and interest, but the proposed payments amount in value to only about 32% of the present face value of the debt...
...close of the Revolutionary War the Virginia Legislature voted, as a reward, to grant certain lands to George Washington. The lands were in what has now turned out to be Washington County, Pa. George Washington went to claim his lands and found one David Reed in possession of them. The two went to law and David Reed won. Last week it was discovered by genealogists that David Reed was the great-great-grandfather of Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania, staunch supporter of the Administration, and the great-grandfather of Senator James A. Reed, of Missouri, vigorous Democrat?enemies...
...Through whom is Senator Reed of Missouri related to Senator Reed of Pennsylvania...
...house and hurt my brother. . . . All the statements attributed to me which reflect upon our student body, I withdraw. ... I express to you, one and all, my deep sorrow. . . ." He went on to say that he had been caught completely off his guard by a question from Senator Reed at the hearing, had spoken in the heat of an excited moment...