Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggestion that this legislation may transfer $200,000,000,000 from those who hath to those who hath not, nor leading the claque for inflation, I still believe that Thomas deserves much credit, has displayed great political ability, good diplomacy and lifted himself a long way. WALTER M. HARRISON...
...Emily Newell Blair, Mrs. Ross's predecessor on the National Committee, got her husband Harry into the Department of Justice as a special assistant. Minnesota's Annie Dickie Olsen is looking for a diplomatic berth for her husband Peter. Uxorial efforts are also being made by Mrs. Harrison Parkman, vice chairman of the Kansas State Cimmittee, Mrs. June Fickel, vice chairman of the Iowa State Committee and Mrs. Marie Proctor, secretary of the Washington State Committee...
...Navy Department last week announced a wholesale shakeup of 24 commands, due to age limits having been reached and tours of duty ended, to take effect throughout the year. Most important was the appointment of Vice Admiral William Harrison Standley, 60, to be Chief of Naval Operations, the Navy's No. 1 tactical post. At a date not yet named he will succeed Admiral William Veazie Pratt, who reached retirement age March 1. President Roosevelt wants Admiral Pratt to stand by until final disposition of the Geneva Disarmament Conference...
...Chicago, Marion Harrison, Negro, 19, stood on an elevated railway platform, held up male passengers with his corncob pipe, forced them to remove their clothes, acquired an Easter wardrobe. He put it on, went out to lunch, returned to the platform, held up another passenger to secure his necktie, was arrested, chortled to detectives: "I got a nifty outfit...
...Harrison P. Shedd (nephew of John Graves Shedd who in 1906 succeeded Marshall Field as president of Chicago's great Marshall Field & Co. store) last week after 37 years with Field's, became general manager of its wholesale department. At the same time Marshall Field issued its first quarterly report in history, showing a quarterly loss of $2,000,000, a smaller loss than in the same quarter last year when sales were 20% bigger...