Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have sojourned in the Philippine Islands for two years or more during the period of American occupation, I venture the assertion that 90% would agree on certain fundamental points. The temerity and absurdity of shooting a "threeday" opinion in the face of such unanimity is apparent. One Francis Burton Harrison essayed to ignore the opinions of all Americans resident in the Philippines, as well as the written instructions of the Secretary of War, and he found that he had been looking down the wrong end of the telescope. Not only did his political ideas collapse in ruins but such personal...
...70th Congress assembles on Dec. 5. Its component parts began filtering into Washington last week. In Denver, a special election returned S. Harrison White, Democrat, the victor over State Senator Francis J. Knauss, Republican, to fill the vacancy in the House of Representatives left by the death of Representative William N. Vaile, Republican. That made the House membership...
...trains rumbled into Washington. Out poured some 2,000 politicians from Middle America. From North Dakota came Governor Arthur Gustav Sorlie. From New Orleans came enormously rotund Mayor Arthur J. O'Keefe. Governor Len Small of Illinois was there and Senators James Enos Watson of Indiana and Pat Harrison of Mississippi. There were business boosters from St. Louis, Vicksburg, Natchez, Baton Rouge; rooster-boosters from Cairo, Keokuk, Dubuque and Quincy. There were a policemen's octet, a quartet of Pullman porters, an Italian band dressed as sailors. One and all wore huge bullseye badges inscribed "America First," "Farm...
...Story: At the Ritz Carlton Hotel, Manhattan, Photios Missailidis and Athanas Harrison conduct the men's main washroom. Each day they place large clusters of small-sized buttonhole flowers (daisies, bachelor-buttons, tube roses, carnations and the like) in vases in their washroom?free buttonhole flowers to any washer-at-the-Ritz...
Crew O--Stroke, R. D. Bolster '28; 7, Austen Gray '30; 6, J. deW. Hubbard '29; 5, Donald Greer '28; 4, B. J. Harrison '29; 3, T. D. Howe Jr. '28; 2, Allerton Cushman '29; bow, E. Hamlin '29; cox., Lewis Wadsworth...