Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Delegation stragglers who came by the faster S. S. Olympic were led by Vice-Chief Delegate James Middleton Cox, shrewd, rich Ohio publisher who brought with him the U. S.'s fiscal big guns: sleek Governor George Leslie Harrison of New York's Federal Reserve Bank, owlish U. S. Treasury Adviser Dr. Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague (recently Adviser to the Bank of England) and a brisk young Manhattan banker, James Paul Warburg. Letting Secretary Hull stew in his low tariff juice, these U. S. fiscal experts made swift contact with their peers at the British Treasury...
Meanwhile the National Recovery Bill was being so battered and banged about in the Senate Committee on Finance as to threaten the President's whole industrial program. Chairman Harrison lost control of his committee in a Democratic revolt similar to the one which last week struck down the President's economy program on the Senate floor. Democratic Senators had suddenly become alarmed about delegating enormous powers to the White House. They were resentful at the way the President had treated them on patronage. They took out their grouch on his recovery bill...
...assume control of the oil industry; 2) adoption against the President's wishes of an embargo on all imports threatening domestic recovery; 3) adoption of a three-man board to handle public works instead of a single administrator. Greatly perturbed by his runaway committee's actions, Chairman Harrison announced that he would carry these anti-Administration amendments to the Senate floor, there stage his fight in the President's behalf. President Roosevelt sent a letter to the committee asking it to restore the license clause as the only means to make the law effective. Chair-man Harrison...
...Finance Committee was in a mood to rewrite the House tax schedules to raise $220,000,000 to finance public works borrowings of $3,300,000,000. Harkening to the public outcry against an increase in the normal tax rates, Chairman Harrison proposed a substitute which the committee gladly accepted. The substitute: 1) a 1/10; of 1% tax on the capital worth of corporations; * 2) a 5% tax on corporate dividends withheld at the source of payment; 3) a ½? per gal. added gasoline tax. Chairman Harrison figured his tax plan would raise $7,000,000 more than the required...
Testimony presented before William Henry Harrison (grandson of the late President of that name and recently unsuccessful Republican candidate for Congressman from this district), judge pro tem., was that one James Brown had taken his horse to Royston's blacksmith shop to have it shod. It was limping badly, having been without shoes for a year. The horse kept lying down, making the shoeing difficult. He tried a "twitch" on it. but this failed to work. Then following what he said had been the advice of experts, he took hold of the horse's tongue and was told...