Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the President's office last week strode Mississippi's tall, bald Pat Harrison, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, just back from a scouting tour of the South and West. For years Senator Harrison has been a conservative "hard money" Democrat. Yet now he boldly told the President that only by currency inflation could his recovery program be made a success. President Roosevelt listened, smiled, promised nothing. Declared Senator Harrison as he emerged from the White House...
...assured newshawks that currency inflation was not even being contemplated at present. Another Presidential visitor was Budget Director Douglas who was instructed to keep regular 1935 government costs below $2,500,000,000. A third caller was Governor Montagu Norman of the Bank of England, escorted by Governor Harrison of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Last week Britain ceased pegging the pound. ¶To speed up his National Recovery Program President Roosevelt directed R. F. C. Chairman Jesse Jones to plan a temporary extension of Federal credit through the banks to NRA members to tide them over the period...
...francs the pound was only 1¼ francs above its all-time low. This week fox-bearded Governor Montagu Norman of the Bank of England, having pleasantly enjoyed himself at Bar Harbor, Me., was to have an interview with President Roosevelt at the suggestion of Governor George Harrison of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Britons wondered, like Americans, exactly where their currency was headed, saw their pound for the first time this year falling faster than the dollar...
...community to give a reasonable or credible explanation of the sources of the deposits or the source which enables him to maintain the scale of living beyond the amount of his salary." The Federal administration to date has given the Kelly administration little or no patronage. Carter Harrison, longtime Mayor, son of the 1893 World's Fair Mayor, was made a Collector of Internal Revenue over the Cermak-Kelly candidate for that job. Ed Kelly will probably be remembered principally as the World's Fair Mayor of 1933. In that difficult job he has handled himself with grace...
...proof that more than 200 horses had been drugged on U. S. tracks this year. Three of those arrested, stable boys who had sold heroin, were last week given jail sentences of one to three years. Ten others were indicted by a Federal grand jury in Chicago under the Harrison Anti-Narcotic Act. They included four owners-Hal Price Headley, A. A. Baroni, Benjamin Creech and Jack Howard-also Creech's son-in-law, Ivan Parke, famed jockey of ten years ago, a Lexington veterinarian and four exercise boys...