Word: reeds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heading the committee is inquisitive Senator Reed, Democrat from Missouri; the other Democrat on the committee is Senator King of Utah, one of the least silent men in the upper house. Young Senator LaFollette, Progressive Republican from Wisconsin, not inclined to be forward, has yet shown in the Tariff Commission investigation that he is not the type to sit back dumbly during cross-examining. The Republican side of the committee has Senator Goff of West Virginia, a so-called hard-boiled Republican of the genus bred in West Virgina, and Senator McNary of Oregon, known in the Senate...
Because Governor Pinchot had requested investigation, he was the first to be examined. His wife and his aunt (Mrs. Charles B. Wood) were in the committee room when the Governor sank his tall, lean frame into the witness chair, turned a saddened eye on Senator Reed, recalled the expenditure of $43,000 of his own personal money on the campaign...
With tilted cigar in one corner of his mouth, Senator Reed relishingly continued the grill. He spent much time seeking for traces of Anti-Saloon League complicity, but Mr. Pinchot said that there was no use, since the League had thown him over and followed Senator Pepper as the better bet," although Pinchot was the bone-dry candidate. Senator Reed observed: "They could be happy with either if the other dear charmer were away...
...they worked very hard," replied the bone-dry man. His secretary later admitted paying $200 to Mrs. Azuba Jones, late of the W. C. T. U. for "dissemination of information," a phrase that rolled somewhat acidly off Senator Reed's tongue when he learned it meant speechmaking...
Worn by his tropical work, Dr. Reed died following an operation, and the government has named the Walter Reed Hospital in Washington in honor of the physician who "gave to man control over that dreadful scourge, yellow fever...