Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason that Sunday is convenient for considering the past week's money moves, planning the next week's moves. Last Sunday evening Secretary Woodin, long an absentee because of illness, was on hand again. So was Eugene R. Black, Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, George L. Harrison, Governor of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, Henry Morgenthau Jr. of the Farm Credit Administration, Chairman Jesse Jones of R. F. C., Henry Bruere (president of Bowery Savings Bank), the President's financial liaison man, Fred I. Kent, foreign exchange expert, and two theorists: Professors James H. Rogers...
These things seriously worried Messrs. Woodin, Black and Harrison who were concerned about the Government's credit, who knew that if the Government could no longer sell bonds there was no way of financing its new expenditures except direct inflation. No small decision did the President have to make, for his advisers were drawn in different directions.* He well knew that Harvard Professor O. M. W. Sprague, onetime adviser to the Bank of England who had come over last spring to act as his adviser, was considering resigning as a protest against the policies afoot, that financiers in London...
Last week the following were news: Claude Rice, 45, longtime Negro cook and porter on the ''business car'' of President Michael Harrison Cahill of Missouri-Kansas-Texas R. R., was appointed "special traffic representative" in charge of Negro travel. Black, genial Trafficman Rice's chief job will be to persuade travel-loving Negroes to ride Katy's Jim Crow cars to their innumerable conventions...
...secondly, by the fact that, with my usual flair for matters editorial, I arrived to correct the proofs two days after the article had gone in to print. I apologize, then, to the Musical Societies of Queens' and Downing, for depriving the one of the credit of engaging Beatrice Harrison and for assigning to the other the said credit which it did not need in view of an already excellent array of artistes; to the St. John's Musical Society for suggesting that it deserts its and our, mother tongue for Hungarian; to E. J. P. Raven, for not saying...
...Tillman Merritt, instructor and tutor in Music, is acting as guide and conductor; Oliver R. Straus '36, and Harrison Wood '36, are the organizers. The other members are Kenneth Cameron '34, Robert R. Corell '35, Robert S. Chafee '36, John N. Edson '36, Charles R. Rockwell III '36, and Albert Thorndike...