Word: reeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senatorial sponsor of the Legion program was Pennsylvania's David Aiken Reed, who last week before the Pennsylvania Threshermens & Farmers Protective Association announced his candidacy for reelection next autumn. More important, 20 Republican Senators in caucus had plumped for the Legion program. More important still, counters of political noses were sure that enough Democratic Senators would vote with the Republicans to pass the Reed measure. Most important of all, the House, which had passed the Independent Offices Bill under a gag rule, was virtually certain to side with the Senate when the measure was returned...
...from $90 to $100 a month in pensions for total, service-connected disabilities; liberalization of hospital privileges for all sick veterans; an increase of burial allowances for dead veterans from $75 to $100. Cost of the changes: $21,000,000 a year, cheap if it serves to smother the Reed bill...
...issue, it must be startling to sound-money Democrats like Senators James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois and Carter Glass of Virginia to find themselves in the Right-wing bed with an old Republican fogey like Ohio's Fess, the prophet of Harding and Hoover, and Pennsylvania's Reed, the voice of Andrew Mellon. To Senator Lewis, Democratic whip, it must seem most peculiar because it was his unexpected election in 1930 which signaled the return of the Democracy to power, the beginning of a Left shift which was to pass even him. Senator Glass's banking bill...
...pick out drawings that could be called representative. . . . Such a long job, out of 40 years of drawing for the old magazines, Puck, Life, The Masses, The Metropolitan, so I told Alma Reed (she runs the gallery) that it would also be my last show...
...excavation work for C. W. A. projects. Frank L. Thomas 1G, and Kenneth B. Disher 1G, have been sent to the Tennessee Valley where archeological sites are soon to be flooded by dam construction and therefore be unavailable for further archeological investigation. Gene M. Stirling 3G, and Erik K. Reed 3G, are stationed in Florida. It is expected that still more men will answer the Government's call for archeological authorities for this work...