The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-23

title and the ho1orS.
 But the tall, easy-going Connec- ticut Yankee is not the real legal burden-bearer of the Administra- ton. That responsibility rests on far abler and more energetic, though less famous shoulders.
 They belong to 8 tall, quiet. hammered, publicity-shy Ken- tUckiaf1, Stanley FOrman Reed.
 As Solicitor General, Stanley Reed for four years has been the New Deals shock trooper in the great battles before the Su- pretne Court. Tn that time he has fought more. Inomentous legal encounters than most lawyers do in a lifetime. Every major New Deal issue has seen Reed in the front firing-line manning the Ad- mirlistration'S guns.
 Here is . list of some of the historic cases he has argued: MIRA -- AAA - IVA -- Gecuri- ties and Exchange Commission -GOld Clause - Holding Corn. pany Act - Wagner Labor Dls- puteS Act - Railway Labor Act -Bankhead Cotton Law = Pfo- cesslng Tax Recovery.
 Before Reed was hastily thrust into this post, the government was losing two out of three cases before the Supreme Court. After his appointment the score was exactly the reverse. Last year, out of 78 cases, the government won 66.
 How He Does It
 Justice Harlan Stone once rec marked to a friend that prepara. ton of any one of the major cases that Reed has argued ordinarily would require a years hard work.
 Reed has carried his stagger- ing load by means of almost sup. er-human labor. He works four and five nights Q week, every week of the year. In four years his only vacation has been c three day golf outing. Last summer, when Washington officialdom fled to recreation spots after the exc hausting session of Congress, Reed continued burning the midnight oil ct his desk, to complete q series of briefs on complex tax questions that the Supreme Court had asked him to have ready when 1t reconvened.
 Despite his ceaseless and inns mense work, Reed seldom seems to tire or become fretfuI. Once, however, the strain was drama
 tlcalIy revealed. During the COt- ton Act hearings in 1895, Reed keeled over i'm the courtroom in . dead faint.
 Ruggedly built, he keeps in physical trim by walking several miles daily to and from his office, and by playing golf stripped to the waist at a strictly masculine club. He never allows anything to worry or annoy him. When hn is fighting c case he battles with all his powers, but once 1t is over he puts 1t but of his mind and goes on to the next issue.
 Old Liberal
 Because of his genuine inodesty and distAste for personal publi- city, only Reeds close friends know about his long standing de. votion to the cause of the under dog.
 His fighting in the ranks of liberalism goes back 25 years, to 6 time when such views were not 50 popular or politically profitable As they are today. Now 63 years old, he was then c young lawyer in Maysville, Ky, only 6 year or two out of his studies at Virginia and Columbia universities and the Paris eorbon1e. Directly across from his residence was c textile mill. Reed noticed young chil. dren entering the factory at dawn and leaving at night.
 He decided to do something about 1t, ran for the State Legis- lature on c platform pledging c child labor law He was bitterly opposed. Some of his best friends in the little town broke with him and never again spoke to him. But Reed was elected and made good his promise, putting through the first child labor act in Ken- lucky.
 Farm Coop Advocate
 From the Industrial scene he turned to agriculture and became 6 leader in the fight against farm tenancy. He helped organize the famous Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association, later Do. coming its chief counsel.
 The reputation he gained in this field brought him tO the OEP TIFF RFC0Rn