Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...liquor tax bill providing an extra excise on wines & liquors imported from War debt defaulting nations. Leaping at the chance to sound off on their pet hate, debt defaulters. Senate Democrats and Republicans alike began to line up solidly behind the Clark amendment. In vain did Mississippi's Harrison plead with his colleagues not to injure the President...
...Senate, might announce (as he did), "My personal opinion is there will be no silver legislation in the near future." But the President could not afford to ignore a subject so dear to the heart of Congress. It was indicated that if necessary the President would have Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi introduce a White House silver proposal. Such inflationist outcries as were heard came chiefly from the Senators and Representatives of the six large silver-producing states,* where remonetization of silver means profit first, inflation second. For the moment at least the President's "stupendous" budget message...
...January 1933 already filibustering in the Senate for "reflation or revolution." In February on the very day that Michigan's banks were collapsing like a house of cards, he wrote letters appealing for inflation to the big bankers of Manhattan-Morgan, Aldrich, Mitchell, Potter, Harrison et al. Said he to them: "After months of effort, here we are forced to appeal from an impotent Congress and a short-sighted administration to you, a higher power, to stop forcing the retreat and to, at once, give the order to advance...
...Democrat Samuel Billingsley Hill. In the picture the gentlemen are cogitating liquor taxes. They decided to up the spirits tax from $1.10 to $2 per gal. and the House swiftly agreed (see p. 15). The Senate group on ways & means is called the Finance Committee, Mississippi's Pat Harrison, chairman. Besides raising money, Congress has the duties of spending it and denning it. For these two purposes each house has two other potent committees. The two Appropriation (spending) Committees are headed by Virginia's little old Senator Glass (see p. 14) and Representative Buchanan of Texas. The Banking...
...County Committee for New York City; Joseph L. Valentine '98 of Chicago, Illinois, banker and former president of the Associated Harvard Clubs; Samuel Cabot '06, of Boston, manufacturing chemist; George S. Franklin '02, of New York City, lawyer; Charles E. Perkins '04, of Santa Barbara, California, former railroad official; Harrison Tweed '07, of Montauk, New York, lawyer; Francis A. Harding '09, of Chestnut Hill, manufacturer; Sinclair Weeks '14, of Newton, Mayor of Newton; Robert Cutler '16, of Brookline, lawyer; George S. Franklin '02, of New York City, lawyer...