Word: reeds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House to impeach?i.e., formally accuse?any official who they have sufficient reason to believe has not lived up to the standards of his office. Crass ignorance may be ground for impeachment, or drunkenness or indecent conduct. Improper use of influence should certainly result in impeachment. Ungrammatical Representative Reed of Illinois suggested to the House that "if a lot of you people were to be impeached for some of your conduct in using your influence, there would be a lot of vacant chairs here." (Applause.) But that sally was considered irrelevant. And for this theory of impeachment there is good...
...seething telegram. Mystified, they whisperingly questioned one another, learned that the Junior Senator from Rhode Island (Jesse Houghton Metcalf) had sent to the clerk this telegram from a constituent, Angelo Morello, who had become incensed by re marks made the previous day by Senator James A. Reed of Missouri.* "Scurrilous, venomous . . . due to ignorance and prejudice," said Angelo Morello's telegram. Veteran Senators were appalled, cast sad looks at Mr. Metcalf, Angelo Morello's Senator...
...clerk's dry voice ceased and in dryer voice Senator Reed spoke: "Does the Senator know that he has violated every rule of the Senate, and not only that, but it is also a violation of the ordinary rules of courtesy...
When the present session of Congress opened, the same combination of Democrats (dissatisfied because Mr. Woodlock is a Democrat who often votes Republican) and Radicals seemed likely to prevent Mr. Woodlock's permanent appointment. And other opposition appeared. It came from solid Republican Pennsylvania, especially from active Senator Reed, who charged that his state, through which runs the Pennsylvania Railroad, lacked representation on the Interstate Commerce Commission, had not received a square deal...
...this point, the President gently removed himself from the impending row by unofficially permitting the Philadelphia Inquirer to state that Pennsylvania and the South would probably get the next appointments to the Commission. Senator Reed, after repudiating frivolous charges of "A deal, a deal!" announced that he would vote for the New York man. Southern Democrats, with the usual lack of leadership in the Senate, decided for the most part to do the same. Furthermore, the South had been somewhat mollified by the appointment of Richard V. Taylor of Mobile, Ala., to the place of a Commissioner who had suddenly...