Word: reeds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Wesley L. Jones of Washington, "blue law" booster, is having trouble with A. Scott Bullitt, Wet and potent Democrat. Each candidate is anxious to have Senator "Jim" Reed investigate the other's campaign expenses. A Jones advocate cried last week: "If you can get President Coolidge to come out and tell the people of Washington State that he won't let Senator Jones close the moving picture houses on Sunday, I can promise you that the Senator will be re-elected...
Senator James A. Reed of Missouri transformed himself into a campaign funds' investigating committee of one, set out for Chicago to finish the prodding which he had suddenly left off in August...
...Then along came a harmless-looking newspaperman, Thomas H. Adams, with a fabulous story of Ku Klux Klan "super-government" in the ranks of Hoosier Republicanism. His charges have not yet been proved, but they make good campaign material. Last week Senator James A. Reed, wary slush bloodhound, stalked into Indiana for one day, long enough to hear Senators Watson and Robinson deny any connection with the Klan's taint. Unless the Democrats can "get the goods," Senator Watson looms for reelection, with Senator Robinson as his more doubtful ticket companion...
Missouri. Harry B. Hawes, Democrat, v. Senator George H. Williams, Republican. It is a battle of personalities, with scarcely a wink separating the candidates. Both are Wet; both flay the World Court. Mr. Hawes has the blessing of Senator "Jim" Reed, who, Republicans say, is no blessing to any one. Missouri and Massachusetts are the two most doubtful states in this autumn's elections...
...Indiana. Senator Reed heard a myriad of tales from a one-time Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan to the general effect that if Senator James E. Watson kept on being a good friend of the Klan he would some day be President of the U. S. Then he would appoint one William F. Zumbrunn (a man who "wines and dines" with Senators and their wives) as Ambassador to Mexico. Whereupon, Senator Watson called Senator Reed to his bedside in an Indianapolis hospital, informed him that it was all a great lie. Said the Senator from Indiana...