Word: reeds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cooked eggs, cold toast, no drinking water, no milk, no soup, no jam, no jelly- upon such things and conditions did the Secretary of War have to spend attention last week. Such things and conditions had been found to exist at Walter Reed General Hospital, the Army's largest medical establishment...
...Walter Reed Hospital occupies a large scrubbily-wooded tract at the far end of 16th Street, Washington, near the District of Columbia-Maryland line. It is composed of central stone buildings surrounded by numerous one-story frame houses. Commanding is Brig.-General James Madison Kennedy...
...hospital was named in honor of Major Walter Reed (1851-1902), Army Surgeon, who was dispatched to Cuba in June, 1900, to learn the causes of yellow fever ("yellow jack") and whose discovery that the disease was transmitted by Stegomyia calopus (mosquito) paved the way for the slaying of that "yellow dragon" and the construction of the Panama Canal. Major Reed died of appendicitis, is buried at Arlington. To the place named for him are taken men hurt and broken in the nation's service. Wives of Army men travel thousands of miles to bear their children there, with...
...Senator Reed Smoot, of Utah, sugar-beet state, spoke as follows on the senate floor one day last week: "Ten years ago ... no manufacturer of tobacco products dared to offer nicotine as a substitute for wholesome foods,"* and demanded from the Senate a law to put tobacco and its products under Food & Drug Act regulations. If such a law passes, cigaret packages would be forced to show how much nicotine, or other drugs they contain and would not dare to exaggerate harmlessness claims. Also would Senator Reed force food manufacturers to tell in their advertisements what they now must tell...
...Gade '30, Barrett Hoyt '30, V. L. Hennessy '30, G. C. Holbrook '30, R. L. Hoguet '31, R. H. Johnson '31, Kendrick Kerns '30, F. P. Kinnicutt '30, G. L. Lewis '30, P. W. Mahady '30, R. S. Morison '30, W. M. Marvel '30, John Noble '30, R. P. Reed '31, H. H. Richardson '30, H. W. Sturges '30, H. B. Sedgewick '30, T. E. Shine '30, P. M. Sweezy...