Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campaign of 1888, when the Republican leaders after the fifth ballot at the National Convention sent a cable message to Elaine who was at the time visiting Andrew Carnegie in Scotland, asking him to accept the nomination and the reply was: 'Too late. Blaine immovable. Take Harrison and Phelps...
...have friendly baseball games, invite the local policemen to athletic events, entertain them at the clubs and promote a feeling friendship? W. T. Harrison...
...days later when Senator Harrison flaunted his round robin in the Senate and the Sales Tax had been knocked groggy, the President took a hand. He called the Democratic members of the Finance Committee to a night conference in the White House. After they had left he heard disturbing news about raids on the dollar abroad, was unable to sleep. At 5:30 a.m. he arose, took pencil & paper, wrote diligently for three hours. At 10:30 a.m. he told the Cabinet he would address the Senate at noon, an impromptu procedure such as none at the White House could...
...Memorial Day an ill-tempered Senate celebrated by lashing the Sales Tax movement to its knees. Senator Harrison paraded on the floor the list of 55 Senators vowing to vote Nay. Desperately supporters of the tax bill lay about them right & left, seizing upon various excises to help push the total of the bill nearer the balancing figure, among them taxes on stock & bond transfers, limitations on income tax deductions...
Died. Mrs. Kate Stanwood Cutter Pillsbury Curtis, second wife and second cousin of Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis; of heart disease; in Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia, where her husband, 81, lay seriously ill. Born in Bangor, Me. she married first Lumberman Harrison M. Pillsbury, resided in Milwaukee until after his death in 1903. In 1910 she married Publisher Curtis whose first wife (the former Louise Knapp, the first editor of Publisher Curtis' Ladies' Home Journal) had died that year...