Word: reeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...musty, grey, inadequate courtroom on the fourth floor of the Federal Building, packed, even without spectators, by lawyers of whom the defendants had 20 present, headed by onetime Senator James A. Reed, the trial, delayed all summer by the defense because one of the defendants, Warner Executive Abel Gary Thomas, was ill, finally began with the selection of a jury. To decide a problem whose ramifications have taxed the best brains of the cinema industry and the U. S. Government for the last 15 years, prosecution and defense agreed upon a dozen sleepy-looking Missouri citizens who included a garage...
...more serious sins might be avoided if those on your staff who edit copy and write headlines would assume tentatively that professors in the university are neither fools nor knaves and certain from portraying them as such without first getting from them either conscious or unconscious continuation. Thomas Reed Powell...
...supreme court must be either stupid or crooked," declared Thomas Reed Powell, newly appointed associate of Leverett House and professor of Constitutional Law in the Harvard Law School...
...bailiwick. When Curley denied that he had been personally involved in the Newton crash, "Sinkie" held an investigation, brought forth witnesses who said that they had seen His Excellency in the car. On the side, "Sinkie" Weeks is a director of Boston's First National Bank, president of Reed & Barton (silverware), treasurer of Durgin Park & Co. (famed Boston restaurant...
...proxy fight for control of Madison Square Garden Corp. (TIME, Sept. 23), Colonel John Reed Kilpatrick (president) outpointed Colonel John S. Hammond (chairman) 144,000 to 129,000 votes. Starting in the club barroom of the famed sports arena, with a policeman at the door, the meeting lasted four days while election judges wrangled over the count. Colonel Hammond announced that he would challenge Colonel Kilpatrick's victory in the courts...