Word: reeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attending the conference were Attorney General Homer S. Cummings; Donald R. Richberg, chairman of the NRA; and Solicitor General Stanley Reed...
...accepting a portrait of John Reed to hang in one of her dormitories, Harvard has shown again, as she has so often in the past, that fine tolerance which is the hallmark of intellectual distinction. John Reed was one of her brilliant sons. He died for his faith in the Bolshevik revolution. It matters not that his political creed was in violent opposition to anything of the kind entertained by most Harvard men then or now. Harvard is not concerned with his opinions, but with the spirit of a man who gave everything he had in support of what...
When important medical men have their pictures taken at Government's Walter Reed (Army) Hospital, they try to get shy Colonel William L. Keller to line up with them. He is Walter Reed's commanding officer and chief surgeon, and director of surgery in the Army Medical School. Besides that, he devised the best method of cutting ribs (pleurectomy) to get at injured lungs and hearts. Besides that, he has operated on many a high public official, Senator and Congressman. For all that last week Congress passed a bill granting Col. Keller, 60, full pay for the rest...
...doubt some persons will hastily conclude that because the Harvard Corporation declined the Hanfataengl scholarship and has accepted the John Reed portrait, the university hates fascism and loves communism. The conclusion is, of course, ridiculous. Acceptance of the offer of Herr Hanfstaengl, one of Hitler's aides, would have signified at least tacit approval of the present German dictatorship. A like proposal from Moscow would doubtless be similarly rejected. Acceptance of a portrait of John. Reed, a man who died fifteen years ago, is merely compliance with the wish of a group of fellow graduates to honor his independence...
...even the staunchest opponent of communism would say that John Reed failed to fulfil these simple requirements. Like his classmate. Senator Cutting, whose career was out short a fortnight ago by an airplane accident, Reed died with the ardor of youth still burning in him. To many a contemporary, grown cautious and disillusioned, his memory will recall great days, rich in hope and expectancy. --Boston Herald. Wednesday...