Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sulivan '27 who was coxswain on last year's University crew, and coached last fall, directed the rudder for the crew stroked by B. J. Harrison '29, and C. H. Pforzheimer '28 guided the eight stroked by Captain Watts...
...take such trifling seriously, soon showed that if the 14-year residency required could disqualify Mr. Hoover, then the following U. S. Presidents, all of whom lived abroad within 14 years of taking office, were illegally elected: John Adams, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, James Buchanan...
Last week, when small-eyed Senator Watson of Indiana, Chairman of the Committee on Committees, arose to ask that the new committee be appointed orally, he was greeted by the mocking drawl of the chief of the Democrats' sarcasm department, Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi. With considerable prompting from Senator Caraway of Arkansas, his twin wit, Mr. Harrison undertook to remind everyone how just such "radicals" as the present "progressives" had been "read out of G. O. P. ranks" three years ago (TIME, Dec. 8, 1924) and denied any Senate committee places at all. Now, behold, the "progressives...
...Harrison earnestly hoped "this kind of bartering and sale" would not go through; that people would not be led to wonder if there was "any trade in the air" between Republicans and "progressives...
...Vare's seat was further with in the room. He walked in and sat upon it like an ostler at his master's wedding, awkward but proud, mortified but grinning, sheepish without shame. There was much in store for him to endure ? the prodding of Mississippi's Harrison, the cold twitting of Nebraska's Norris, the rabbit-punching of Missouri's Reed. The lat ter chewed softly on his cigar, glancing only now and again across the aisle where sat the other Reed, haggard but urbane, threatening to fili buster for his colleague...