Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only a thin plaster partition in a Danville, Va. hotel one day last week separated the persons of William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, and Harrison Robertson Fitzgerald, president of Riverside & Dan River Mills Co. Their industrial principles, however, remained poles apart. What tied them together in the week's news were their conflicting interests in the A. F. of L.'s strike, biggest of the Depression, in Mr. Fitzgerald's Danville mills, largest and long the most peaceful of Southern textile plants. President Green conferred with strike leaders in a private parlor...
...Agreed to the conference report on the $116,000,000 Unemployment Relief bill; sent it to the President. ¶ Confirmed the appointment to the Federal Farm Board of Floyd Reed Harrison...
...Washington last week in the new Fokker "flying wing" observation plane (TIME, Sept. 29) flew Pilot-Lieut. Harrison G. Crocker and Fokker Engineer Stephen A. Forberger, co-designer of the craft. Over the city's outskirts one of the Fokker's gasoline tanks ran dry, cutting both motors. Aware that Pilot Crocker, who had never flown the plane before, would not know what valve to turn. Engineer Forberger hastily clambered up through the cowling of his front cockpit and started back over the wing to direct him. Meanwhile the pilot who had no time to lower the plane...
...plan was to be kept "confidential" until time to spring it on the President as a New Year's surprise. But the secret was only one day old when it fell into the hands of Mississippi's sly Senator Pat Harrison. With obvious relish he read on the Senate floor, sentence by sentence, from the "ludicrous" plan to "bedeck [the President's] brow with a coronet of praise and warm his heart with every complimentary expression." Also, he noted, the President's administrative assistant French Strother was once an editorial writer on World's Work...
...review of the Christmas number of the "Advocate," which appeared in yesterday's CRIMSON, the article entitled "Norman Foerster and the New Humanism" was attributed to W. H. Melish '31, whereas the correct name of the author is W. E. Harrison...