Word: senatore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yet, in a 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...
The 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...
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...
Knowing this, and angered by the Senate Chamber's emptiness, Senator Reed darkly hinted that he would filibuster. This news brought a frown to the tired forehead of the Senate's other Reed? slim, stooping young David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, protégé of Andrew Mellon.
One weekday last week the House dropped its legislative labors to hold its first group memorial service for the ten Representatives and one Senator who died within the Congressional year. Such services used to be held on Sundays and fine occasions for flowery oratory they were-only nobody came.