Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard: l.e., Geer; l.t., Adlis, Harrison; l.g., Kessler, Young; c., Brown, R. Jones; r.g., Lane, Van Cleve; r.t., Simmons, Giles; r.e., Choate, Gaffney; q.b., Pedrick, Headbloom. Weeks; l.h.b., Bilodeau; r.h.b., Blackwood, Heyser: f.b., Ecker, Ford...
Living proof of Senator Harrison's contention was soon furnished in Washington by the assembling of a cabal of cotton farmers' spokesmen represented, with Oklahoma's arch-inflationist Senator Thomas sitting coonily on the sidelines, by South Carolina's Senator Ellison D. Smith and Senator John H. ("Tallulah") Bankhead. More than 100 interested parties attended these caucuses, whose animated membership demanded two things...
President Roosevelt was well aware that unless he was able to make a substantial showing toward recovery by Jan. 3 when Congress next sits. Senator Harrison's prophecy would doubtless be fulfilled and currency inflation would be foisted on the country by an hysterical legislature. To head off such a development the President last week went off on a sharp credit inflation tack...
President Roosevelt last week sent telegrams to the widows of Presidents Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft and Calvin Coolidge and to onetime President Herbert Hoover. The messages all carried the same news: the good friend and trusted aide of each & every one of them, Irwin Hood ("Ike") Hoover, longtime chief usher at the White House, was dead in Washington at the age of 62. He had left his cubby-hole office just off the White House foyer one afternoon, gone home, been suddenly stricken with a heart attack. Declared President Roosevelt who had known...
...Edison Co. of New Jersey sent young Ike Hoover to Washington to wire the White House for electric lights. It was a six-month job. President Harrison, skittish about electricity, asked Ike Hoover to remain, take charge of the "incandescents," the bells and pushbuttons. President McKinley made him chief usher. As major-domo of the White House he ran its social functions, stage-managed the ceremonious presentation of diplomatic credentials, arranged seating lists for dinners, kept a check on calling cards, directed Presidential receptions, herded the Cabinet about, told distinguished visitors, where to stand, what to say. As guardian...