Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Pat Harrison (Democrat) leaped to his feet, last week, and electrified his Senatorial peers. Not since the green legal shingle of young lawyer Pat swung in the breeze at Leakesville, Miss., has he spoken with more vigorous abandon. He flayed the Administration for what he called its "dark lantern diplomacy." He referred slightingly to President Coolidge as "Careful Cal." He openly derided Secretary of State Kellogg as "Nervous Nellie." All this he did because the press of the world became excited about an alleged report on the European situation in general, said to have been made by a gentleman...
...Spokesman." Mr. Houghton was summoned from London to the White House (TIME, March 29) to give the President what is sometimes called "the low down" on Europe. Senator Harrison found no fault with that. He called the move "all right . . . well, proper and good." What caused the Senator anguish was an interview which Mr. Houghton gave to the press, in accepted White House fashion. That is, he spoke through a "spokesman," a mythical third person whom the President invokes as his mouthpiece, in order that what the "spokesman" says may be contradicted next day, if necessary...
...HARRISON JONES...
...look with much favor upon this change in Mr. Heflin. He suggested a number of possibilities which might account for the change: 1) That Mr. Heflin found himself without an issue and did not know where to go oratorically. 2) That perhaps like his fellow Senator Pat Harrison* he had made some money during the recess. 3) That he may have read press comments on his speeches. 4) That he may have felt "a belated sense of futility." 5) That he believes it impossible to compete with Senator Blease for the title of chief Democratic demagog...
After four years, he returned to Illinois and became special counsel to the Pullman Co. In 1889 another request, this time from President Harrison, took him to London as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Returning again to his native state, he refused to run for the U. S. Senate. George A. Pullman died and Mr. Lincoln became executor of his estate, enjoying a $400,000 fee and the presidency of the sleeping car company. He visited the Buffalo Exposition and witnessed a third presidential assassination, McKinley shot by Anarchist Czolgosz...