Word: reeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yesterday, Senator Reed of Pennsylvania refused to attend a banquet convoked to felicitate the newly crowned postmaster of Pittsburgh. He objected to the ousting, on purely partisan grounds, of the man who had preceded him, and whose term was not yet consummated. "There are," said Senator Reed, "other cases in which this arbitrary removal has been called into action in Pennsylvania." And there are, although Senator Reed did not mention them, numerous cases in other states, as, for example, the postmaster of Chicago, who was uprooted from a useful career in the same bland and cavalier fashion...
...College campus, in the heart of Philadelphia's "Main Line" district, a large white tent was set up last week. Into it shuffled an academic procession of delegates from 112 institutions, ranked by seniority all the way from Oxford and Cambridge down through Juniata College (founded 1876) to Reed College (founded 1911). The delegates, among them 50-odd college presidents, had come to help Haverford celebrate its 100th birthday...
...California, Herbert Clark Hoover stopped in Ogden to talk with Utah's former Senator Reed Smoot told reporters: "I have discovered a new method of enjoying life. To those who seek relaxation and to those who want to know how to go about enjoying the best in life. I recommend that they take an automobile out on the highway. Never mind about where you are going. Just go. If you want to turn down this byway, do it. If you want to drive farther and turn down another side road, do that. It's delightful...
Count Mass, Jr., E. R. Little, P. D. Rowan, J. D. Tew, Dom. P. Davis, A. L. Jorgenson, C. Francis Ladd, Doris Benson, John E. Bird, Barbara Evers, R. A. Benson, Jr., Reed E. Bartlett, Charles W. Perry, Sidney Gleason, 2nd, Ruth Hussey, W. A. Frances, Mary Ettling, Evelyn Hassman, T. Gordan Bingham, Jr., Dorothy Hughes, F. F. Silver, Robert Schafer, Natalie Peterson, Alber Flower, Jr., Mina Flower, Beechman, L. Fairbank, Margaret Page, Dorothea MacMillen, H. Myron, Jr., G. S. Worcester, N. Shipman, Jay Ricks, Miss J. White...
...student and R. O. T. C. member, who said he had been hired by the U. S. Secret Service to smell out Communism in the University. He had found none in classrooms, but could and did point his finger at 18 students who belonged to the Communistic John Reed Club and the National Student League. Spying on their meetings, he had discerned a trend toward violent revolution at some distant date. But, said he, members rarely mentioned that subject. Their chief interest seemed to be in abolishing...