Word: harrison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a Congressman, full of sound & fury, tells the home folks what he is going to do at the next session. Often his remarks are for political drama and home consumption only. It is otherwise with Mississippi's Senator Pat Harrison, chairman of the potent Senate Finance Committee. Usually cautious about what he says, he usually means it when he says it. Last week at a meeting of the Democratic State Committee in Jackson. Miss., he spoke. His flat announcement...
...members, Otto Sternoff Beyer and George Cook. Grim also was the Pennsylvania's H. A. Enochs, chairman of the committee of 15 representing the railroads, which maintained, as they had from the first, that a wage reduction was "necessary, justified, and inevitable." Grimmest of all were President George Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives Association (775,000 union men) and President Alexander F. Whitney of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen (150,000 members). Labormen Harrison and Whitney, despite a quarrel that had them scowling at each other last week, have maintained ail along that heavy capitalization is to blame...
...Port Orford all stirred up last week was a 70-year-old Oregon miner named Robert Harrison. Miner Harrison asserts that he found the meteorite as a boy of 14, when he was staking out a nickel claim in the mountains with his father. Oldster Harrison also declares that he came upon the meteorite again in 1900, that he still remembers exactly where it is. Slowed up two years ago by an injury. Miner Harrison was feeling spry enough last week to figure on going after the lost meteorite...
Senator Pat Harrison was vacationing in California, Senator Joe O'Mahoney was in Wyoming resting up for his Monopoly Investigation. So in Washington last week the committee charged with policing 1938's Senate campaigns was stripped down to dutiful little Senator Sheppard of Texas (chairman), urbane Senator White of Maine (the sole Republican), lumbering Senator David Ignatius Walsh of Massachusetts. In an air-conditioned office at the Capitol, this trio scanned reports from ten field investigators, kept the press informed of its opinions on the political campaign...
...more faithful, but he is not nimble. Almost his first act as Majority Leader was to let New York's Wagner introduce the time-wasting anti-lynching bill, abhorrent to Southerners. When he was invited to speak to Washington's gay Alfalfa Club (dining) he asked Pat Harrison how long he should talk. An old hand, Pat Harrison said: "Well . . . about an hour and a half." Alben Barkley suspected nothing until, after an hour, the Alfalfans applauded when he said, "And in conclusion. . . ." As befits his plodding nature his favorite song is Wagon Wheels...