Word: harrison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Indiana one man said: "If Harrison's mayor [of Chicago] I'm going to the Fair, but I'm going to wear nothin' but tights and carry a knife." MacMonnies molded a statue; George Pullman put up cigar money; the Fair was held. The day it closed Mayor Harrison got three lead shots in his middle and died...
...city amalgamation is this chain. The list of its officers and directors is enough to show that the financial and business interests of a great part of the Northwest are united in it. President is George Harrison Prince, head of First National of St. Paul, native of Amherst, Mass., but acquainted with northwestern banking from the ground up. Now 68, he has spent 50 years of his life in the small and large banks of Minnesota. Vice President is Lyman Wakefield, head of First National of Minneapolis. The list of directors, incomplete last week, is to include the presidents...
...Giant Campolo's reach is 82 in., 8 in. longer than that of William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey...
...possible that Senator Smoot doesn't know that the West Riding of Yorkshire is one of the administrative divisions of the largest county in England, and contains large manufacturing cities like Leeds, Bradford, Sheffield, Huddersfield, Halifax, or is he joking, or trying to make Senator Harrison believe it is a protest from a riding club...
...Beet sugar growers did not think it would give them adequate protection. Farm representatives called it a "risky experiment." Senator Smoot's co-author of the Tariff Bill, Congressman Willis Chatman Hawley of Oregon, complained the plan should not "be even considered." Mississippi's Democratic Senator Pat Harrison commented sarcastically on the "fretful condition of this newborn sugar baby." "Certainly," said he, "the sleepless nights Senator Smoot must have spent with this crying curiosity . . . entitle him to a rest...