Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only occasionally did Senator Harrison dip into this flow of testimony. Once he got a vigorous assent from Mr. Duffield when he asked: "If the coming special session got to work, composed its differences, balanced the Budget, passed constructive measures and then adjourned quickly, in two months, would not that have a good effect on the country?" And Pat Harrison jokingly advised Mr. Houston to "get off that subject" when the onetime Secretary of the Treasury began to hector Senator Smoot on the evil effects of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act. But for the most part Senator Harrison sat back...
...Harrison. The important part he will play in the leadership of the new Democratic Senate has done much to sober Pat Harrison and tighten his loose-hitched tongue. At 51 he has become almost owlish under the prospective burdens of statesmanship. The great lung capacity he first developed as a barefoot boy hawking the Memphis Appeal & Avalanche about the dusty streets of his native Crystal Springs, Miss, seems to have deserted him. He still makes windy speeches outside Washington about "mah countree" and views Republican doings with "amaze-munt" but he is no longer the Senate's loudest...
...christened Byron Patton Harrison but Pat has become his common-law name. At Louisiana University he earned his tuition as a mess hall waiter while pitching on the college baseball team. Later he taught school, studied law, served as a local district attorney and, at 29, was elected to the House. In 1918 he performed a political miracle by defeating notorious James Kimble Vardaman for the Senate and taking over the seat once occupied by Jefferson Davis. His first ten years in a Republican Senate were ones of irresponsible fun at the expense of the G. O. P. He teased...
Since early in December, businessmen have been flooding Senator Harrison with mail and messages to establish friendly relations with the next chairman of the Finance Committee. Few of them really had anything to fear from him. On taxation he opposes a Federal sales tax (though his own Mississippi has a State one), is inclined to go to the income-tax-paying class for more revenue. A vociferous foe of Republican protection, he is a red-hot supporter of President-elect Roosevelt's reciprocal tariff scheme. Under his chairmanship Industry can expect deep cuts in its protective rates but Agriculture...
...Colleagues. The new Senate in which Senator Harrison will be the leader on Government finance is composed of 59 Democrats, 36 Republicans, one Farmer Laborite. At the head of the Chamber, with Vice President Garner on the rostrum to help him steer, will be Arkansas' ruddy, rugged Joseph Taylor Robinson who has gamely forgotten his own unsuccessful run for the Vice-Presidency in 1928. For all his red-faced bellowing Leader Robinson is at heart a level-headed conservative who will do his utmost to keep the Roosevelt legislative program on the track. The same quick temper which once...