Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...generation after the Civil War the Grand Army of the Republic was an incubus on national politics. It waved the "bloody shirt" from every crossroads stump. It packed Congress with its mem bers. It put Generals Grant, Hayes, Garfield and Harrison into the White House. It dictated legislation on pensions until the public cried loudly out in protest. Only with the coming of the 20th Century did Death down the G. A. R. as a political influence...
Married. James Irving Bush, Manhattan clubman, onetime husband of Mrs. Mona Strader Williams (present wife of Financier Harrison Williams); and Mrs. Virginia Van Sant Alvord, who recently divorced Clive Alvord of Greenwich, Conn.; at Sanborn Hill, Epsom...
...Orleans, in other nightlife centres. In New Orleans many a schoolchild is said to be an addict; prison authorities find muggle-smuggling a perplexing problem. Federal authorities say that marijuana, though a drug, is not a narcotic drug and therefore its users cannot be prosecuted under the Harrison Act. So in Louisiana the Legislature passed its own antimarijuana law. In California, Cornetist Louis Armstrong ("world's greatest Negro cornet player") was sentenced to jail for 30 days for taking poison when caught smoking a "reefer...
...year-old Secretary leaped back quickly, suffered only a slight glass cut on his right hand which Captain Cavallini of the Conte Biancamano swabbed with alcohol and iodine. Secretary Mellon immediately hurried downtown to confer with Governor George Leslie Harrison of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York...
...robbed its occupants. When young Wheatley recognized Smith they had killed all four, driven into Ypsilanti with the bodies to get gasoline. Then they had taken the bodies out on the lonely road, soaked them with the gasoline, set fire to them. Oliver said Blackstone had raped Miss Harrison before the murders...