Word: reeds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will, however, be free to record any other choice which they prefer. The Republican candidates are: Charles Curtis, of Kansas; Charles G. Dawes, of Illinois; Herbert Hoover, of California; Frank O. Lowden, of Illinois; Frank B. Willis of Ohio. The Democrats include: A. Victor Donahey, of Ohio; James A. Reed, of Missouri; Albert C. Ritchie, of Maryland; Alfred E. Smith, of New York; Thomas J. Walsh, of Montana...
...Reed. The thinly-populated Southwest echoed all week with the slow, formidable voice of Candidate Reed. Partly to overshadow Candidate Smith, partly to get credit for a party service, partly because he revels in smoldering oratory, Candidate Reed stuck close to his stock speech on G. O. P. "boodlers" and misdeeds, seasoned with a few peppercorns for Tammany Hall. At Dallas, he specially flayed Secretary Mellon. At Tulsa, his special text was Oil, his chief target the Tariff. At Topeka he fell upon President Coolidge and snarled: "Without hesitation I declare that the stratum of the Republican party which...
...Topeka, Candidate Reed reverted to Lawyer Reed when local lawyers told him how "thrilled" they had been by the $100,000 fee he was reported to have gotten for defending Henry Ford in the Sapiro libel case. "All I want to say about that case," replied Lawyer Reed, "is that, whatever the amount of that fee, it was not big enough to pay me for a client lying down after I had won my case...
...Edward Rice, Chairman, and Dorothy Rodgers; J. C. Carter and Marion Haefell; A. G. Churchill and Georgina Denton; W. L. Denton and Alfreida Carter; D. L. Garrison and Deo de Pont; Reed Harwood and Catherine Hedge...
Inquisitor Walsh thundered, Missouri's Reed hammered, Virginia's little Glass poured sputtering acid, Nebraska's cold Norris heaped disdain, upon 17 Democrats who joined Senator George with evident relief. Anger replaced relief as the debate grew hot, until Maryland's elderly Bruce, who usually just bumbles along, shrilled out: "The Senate is drunk with its investigating powers...