Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fine wines), lots to spend, cannon crackers, yacht rides-Hearst's staff were his familiars, and his paper's contents were historic. He had Ambrose Bierce, Gertrude Atherton, Joaquin Miller and Mark Twain on his payroll. Also Thomas Nast, Jimmy Swinnerton, T. A. ("Tad") Dorgan, Homer Davenport, Harrison Fisher, "Bud"' Fisher. In the Examiner first appeared "Casey at the Bat'' and "The Man with the Hoe." (A Negro doorman turned away Rudyard Kipling when he came peddling Plain Tales from the Hills.} Hearst hired special trains at the slightest drop of the journalistic...
...Shenandoah and the Blue Ridge are two of the greatest beauties of the South. A third is Mona Strader Schlesinger Bush Williams. Last week Harrison Williams, multi-millionaire utility tycoon, gave up active management of his two investment trusts named for the valley and the mountains. Thus does a New Deal succeed...
...Harrison Williams, Ohio-born, now turned 60, was ten years ago a great utility man, master of Central States Electric Corp. and North American Co. The degree of his mastery is evident from the fact that in 1931 he controlled of North American. Naturally he was rich. As an interesting gesture he with Vincent Astor, Marshall Field and the late Henry Devereaux Whiton financed William Beebe's expeditions to the Sargasso Sea and the Galapagos Islands-with the result that there is today a Harrison Williams Volcano in the islands. He also bought the Krupp-built Vanados, then largest...
...Deal, 1933, found Shenandoah with its $102,500,000 of assets shrunken to $32,455,000; Blue Ridge with its $127,500,000 of assets shrunken to $40,405,000; one selling at $1.85 a share, the other at $2.25. Harrison Williams still presided over them, and if his personal fortunes had waned he showed it far less than many another multi-millionaire of 1929, though his Long Island estate was reported for sale. Shenandoah's largest assets included over $1,500,000 of North American Co. and slightly less of Central States Electric. Blue Ridge's largest...
...night last week five men filed softly into the White House and sat down with President Roosevelt for a secret talk. They were his legislative lieutenants at the Capitol-Vice President Garner, Speaker Rainey, Senate Leader Robinson, House Leader Byrns and Senator Pat Harrison. There had been in the month past many such night conferences at the White House whence participants had returned to Congress with their Presidential orders. But this one was different. The five Democrats emerged with their lips sealed. Not until the next day did the meeting become generally known and even then other Senators and Representatives...