Word: harrison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt a rousing hand for his memorable speech, but in Washington there was a different reaction. Judging by what he had said, the President, it seemed, had not read the new Tax Bill, or had not understood it. Among those most deeply concerned was hard-working Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, Democratic chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. Members of both houses flocked into the Senate Chamber next day to hear Pat Harrison insist that "American principles and Government principles of long standing" had not been abandoned in the Tax Bill which he had helped to write...
John W. Darr, Jr., -- Miss Jane Harrison, Wellesley...
...started work as chairman of a Ways & Means Subcommittee to draft the Revenue Bill of 1938. Well-informed Taxman Vinson took the floor without notes. The bill he proposed to defend against all comers was neither his committee's nor the much-amended Senate bill sponsored by Pat Harrison. It was a patched up compromise between the two, which the Senate had hustled through two days before without a record vote. Congressman Vinson, who has always tried to do his level best for Franklin Roosevelt, drawled: "We have done our dead level best to ... be helpful to business recovery...
Cupboarded in Senate and House committees last week was the Harrison-Fletcher Bill, intended to wipe out the intellectual slums. The bill, which would appropriate $72,000,000 for Federal aid to education in the coming year and raise the ante to $202,000,000 by 1944, embodies the recommendations of the President's Advisory Committee on Education (TIME, March 7). Because it would permit Federal money to be used for books, bus service and scholarships for pupils in parochial (e.g., Roman Catholic) schools, it is opposed by Catholicophobes, led by Columbia University's Professor George Drayton Strayer...
...Continued its slow legislative moves to help the hard-pressed railroads (carloadings last week were 30% under those of a year ago). Added to the list of proposed emergency laws was the first draft of a bill presented by Labor Executive George Harrison to allow railroads to reorganize without entering the courts under Section 77 of the Bankruptcy Act. This section, the roads' only present recourse when they go to the wall, is so phrased that not one of the 25 Class I roads to try it has succeeded in reorganizing because bondholders have been unable to agree with...