Word: reporteds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tombstone for Reed but a tombstone by Reed was his 37,000 word report on his special committee's long-drawn investigation of the manner in which William S. Vare of Philadelphia got nominated for and elected to the Senate...
...sense, it was a tombstone for Reed after all, because hardly anyone bothered to read the report and almost no one remained in the chamber to hear the Senator dilate and expatiate and ejaculate upon it. It was an old, oft-told story and much though they used to like Senator Reed, his colleagues could not bear to hear him go all through the Vare iniquities again...
...report told, and Senator Reed rehearsed, how Mr. Vare, whom the late Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania used to call "the ashcart statesman" because he once hauled ashes and garbage in Philadelphia, spent colossal sums to wrest the nomination from Gifford Pinchot and George Wharton Pepper (who both used colossal sums themselves...
Since Senator Vare was in Florida, still recuperating from the paralytic stroke which he suffered last summer and which, according to his physicians, made it impossible for him to appear and defend himself, the committee in its report merely recommended his final rejection but presented no ouster resolution. To the grim-jawed, vindictive Reed was left the honor and the glory of demanding, one last time, the Senator-Suspect's rejection...
Correspondents with nothing to write about sensationally described as "The Stamp Report" a memorandum in which Sir Josiah Stamp suggested to the Committee that it might be possible to work along the following line: 1) determine how much Germany ought to pay; 2) decide what portion of this amount Germany must pay; 3) investigate and establish the degree of German capacity to pay the rest...