Word: reeds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ford has hired able defense counsel, headed by Senator James A. Reed of Missouri (TIME, March 7), for whose sharp tongue and inquisitorial powers many a lawyer yearns. The defense contends that there is no need of Mr. Ford taking the witness stand or of dragging in the question of race prejudice. Said Mr. Reed: "Neither the principles of co-operative marketing nor the Jewish race is on trial. . , . We are accused of libeling Mr. Sapiro, and it is therefore his work and the plan which he expounded, that we seek to test. We claim that he was selfish...
...will be a queer trial. Judge Fred Raymond is a Protestant. Mr. Reed was born a Presbyterian and is a candidate for President. Mr. Ford, idealist, pacifist and manufacturing moralist, keeps his religion an enigma. William H. Gallagher, attorney for Attorney Sapiro, is a Roman Catholic. Mr. Sapiro, onetime orphanage waif and newsboy, once studied to be a rabbi...
...James A. Reed...
ANSWER: Calumet. (A reed...
...pleaded with snarling filibusterers for the passage of his Second Deficiency bill, dearer to him than all investigating of slush funds. He, Francis Emroy Warren of Wyoming, 82, Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, had made this plea more than 20 times during the 40½-hour Reed v. Reed wrangle. He had spent half of one night on a Senate lounge when he should have been home in bed. His snow-white moustache drooped; his eyes were sunken, bleary; his voice quavered. Somebody said: "I object." His last plea was dashed to the floor like a broken relic. Like...