Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married- Anna Blair Thornton, daughter of the late Sir Henry Thornton, onetime president of Canadian National Railways; and Dr. Winston F. Harrison of Montreal and Manhattan; at the home of the bride's mother. Lady Virginia Thornton, near Bowmansdale...
Star witness was one William Harrison Haight Jr., 19-year-old student and R. O. T. C. member, who said he had been hired by the U. S. Secret Service to smell out Communism in the University. He had found none in classrooms, but could and did point his finger at 18 students who belonged to the Communistic John Reed Club and the National Student League. Spying on their meetings, he had discerned a trend toward violent revolution at some distant date. But, said he, members rarely mentioned that subject. Their chief interest seemed to be in abolishing...
Having fired this opening gun, "General" Farley prepared for a South-wide radio address from Memphis on the eve of the Tennessee-Alabama-Arkansas voting. Senators Robinson of Arkansas and Harrison of Mississippi were ready to make a whirlwind campaign in behalf of Repeal on the strict basis of party loyalty...
Colgate University (Hamilton, N. Y.) George Leslie Harrison, Governor of New York's Federal Reserve Bank (in absentia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .LL.D. Edgar Nelson Rhodes, Canada's Finance Minister (in absentia). . . . . . LL.D. Vice President Herbert Abram Baker of American Can Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sc.D. George Parmly Day, Yale University treasurer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. President Robert Devore Leigh of Bennington College (Vt.) . . . . . . . . . . . .LL.D...
With the pound at this time worth $4.10 (after rising in the past few days from $4.01) Governor Harrison reputedly broached to Governor Montagu Norman of the Bank of England a pegging together of dollar & pound at $4.30. This of course was sheer horse trading, the British having mentioned $3.50 as their figure. During the next few days Governor Harrison sat tight, watched mysterious forces, about which Britons thought he knew a great deal, depress the dollar so violently on the day the Conference opened that the pound was forced...