Word: harrison
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Banks, which hold about $300 million in deposits, feared a run of serious proportions. Said Anchorage City Councilman Sewell Faulkner: "I'd hate to think how many hundreds of people in Anchorage are bankrupt right now." In Seward, where 90% of the economy simply crumbled, City Manager William Harrison told newsmen: "Fellows, we're in a hell of a mess." He tried to read a news release; his voice broke, and he wept. "It's going to take a long time to recover," he said hoarsely...
...Harrison might well have wept for all Alaska. For despite the fact that the state is twice the size of Texas (267,339 sq. mi.), its small population (250,000) and more than 60% of its business life were centered chiefly in those areas where the earthquake caused most of the destruction...
...editor of a crusading weekly back in the 1930s, New Mexico Newsman Will Harrison made so many enemies that he took to carrying a hunk of type metal for self-defense. Now that he has turned columnist in 16 Southwestern dailies, 13 weeklies and two monthly magazines, Harrison is still stirring up trouble so strenuously that Judge Paul Tackett of the state district court in Albuquerque has just hit him with a $250 fine and a ten-day jail sentence for contempt of court. While the punishment itself does not seem unbearably burdensome, the case has reverberated far beyond...
Such reasoning did not impress Harrison, who decided that Morris had been let off with too light a rap. Harrison made his view plain in no fewer than six different columns. He contrasted the Morris trial with a similar manslaughter case in which a car driven by a drunken New Mexican construction la borer, Elirio Trujillo, rammed another car, killing three people. Tried before another judge, Trujillo got one to five years in prison. But Harrison failed to mention that while Morris was a first offender, Trujillo had been arrested twice on drunken-driving charges, and had escaped from jail...
...Hard a Kick? After Harrison's sixth attack, a lawyer for Morris charged that the columns were in contempt of court because they were "designed to ridicule, intimidate and influence the court" and presented "a clear and present danger to the administration of justice in New Mexico." The judge tried Harrison for contempt and found him guilty. The press has less freedom to comment on pending cases than on closed cases, and Tackett ruled that since he had deferred sentencing, the Morris case was still before the court...