Word: reeds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Says Ex-Senator Watson of Senator Norris' unsuccessful fight in 1910 to prevent the re-election of "Uncle Joe" Cannon to the Speakership and the readoption of the Reed Rules under which he operated as Speaker: "George W. Norris had been a judge, and always a man of industry and ability. Uncle Joe and I had just campaigned in his district, and we were all on the friendliest terms...
...Ambassador to France and originally hailed with Communist huzzahs because his onetime wife was the widow of Comrade John Reed (the much esteemed...
Harvard has never felt chagrin at its Class of 1910 which featured such celebrities as Columnists Walter Lippmann and Heywood Broun, Poet Thomas Stearns Eliot, Communist John Reed, New York's Representative Hamilton Fish Jr., Economist Stuart Chase. The Class of 1911, however, sported so few notables 25 years after graduation as to prompt Sportswriter John Roberts Tunis, Harvard 1911, to publish a pessimistic portrayal of his classmates' aspirations and accomplishments (Was College Worth While?}. Most distinguished member of 1911, in the consensus of the class, was Cartoonist Gluyas Williams, who shone on the Harvard Lampoon...
...also with an eye to ease of maintenance. At Kansas City, hefty Prizeman Hamilton heads TWA's maintenance crew of 418 men. or 15 valets for each one of TWA's 27 Douglas transports. ¶ An older prize presented again last week was the Sylvanus Albert Reed Award of $250, given annually by the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences for the year's most notable contribution to aeronautical science. This year's winner: Professor Edward Story Taylor. 34, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His invention: a dynamic vibration absorber for aircraft engines...
...unscheduled feature of the finale, the participants were swamped with requests for their briefs from leading law firms in all parts of the country. One of these came from Stanley F. Reed Solicitor-General of the U. S., who will defend the government's case when the issue comes before the Supreme Court shortly...