Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minister to Persia, President Roosevelt chose William Harrison ("Bill") Hornibrook of Utah, Minister to Siam under President Wilson. The Administration owed quiet, erudite Mr. Hornibrook, publisher of the Salt Lake Times, a double debt. A militant Democrat but no Mormon, he published last year a tract called "Thirty Reasons Why Smoot Should Be Defeated." Onetime Senator Smoot admits the pamphlet defeated his reelection. By substituting Senator James Watson's name for Smoot's, the tract was also used to good effect in the Indiana Senatorial campaign...
MARY ROSE HARRISON...
...since President Harrison flung open the Oklahoma Indian Territory has the U. S. seen anything like what it will see next week when Prohibition is stricken from the Constitution. On that April morning in 1889 a surging column of men on foot, men on horseback, men in buggies, buckboards, dump-carts, whole families in covered wagons stretched across the prairie in a straight line. Men fought and cursed and jockeyed for a front position behind Federal troopers. At noon a bugle blast split the air. On to the old Indian lands swept 50,000 men, women, children, pioneers, drifters, squatters...
When the Economic Conference met in June, the President's hard money advisers sat in the seats of power. Secretary Woodin was ill and Dean Acheson was quietly running the Treasury. Hardmoney-men Sprague and George Leslie Harrison were in London tentatively arranging to stabilize the dollar. On June 29 Mr. Morgenthau sped to Campobello Island, was on the launch with Mrs. Roosevelt to greet the President as he sailed on the Amber jack II. On July 1, the President and Mr. Morgenthau boarded the cruiser Indianapolis and steamed southward. Two days later the cruiser's wireless ticked...
...British it taking Dr. Sprague from his $25,000 post as adviser to the Bank of England his salary at Washington being $6,000. At their second and third meetings, fellow economists say, the President and Professor Sprague found themselves diametrically opposed. The stabilization plan formulated by Governor Harrison of the New York Federal Reserve and Dr. Sprague was later repudiated sharply by the President during the London Economic Conference...