Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...touchiest appointive jobs. With adroit conciliatory hands the President had reshuffled his cards, dealt a moral victory to the native politicos of the Philippines, to Mr. Roosevelt a face-saving promotion, to his own Administration a neat out. Other simultaneous dealings included the acceptance of the resignation of Leland Harrison as Minister to Uruguay and the transfer of jovial Joshua Butler Wright as Minister from Hungary to Uruguay...
Contributors of $10,000: John North Willys, Harry Frank Guggenheim, Jeremiah Milbank, Mantis James Van Sweringen, Orris Paxton Van Sweringen, John Davison Rockefeller Sr., John Davison Rockefeller Jr., Howard M. Hanna, Cyrus Stephen Eaton, Henry H. Timken, William Robert Timken, Harrison Williams, Herbert Nathan Straus, William Nelson Cromwell, George A. Martin, Joseph Randolph Nutt...
...second shot, Merion is notable for its formidable par fours, its exacting threes, and for an old quarry that sprawls like an ungainly footprint through three fairways at its north end. Of the 168 entrants, the most important victim of the quarry and the white faces was Harrison Johnston, defending champion. He had a first round of 83. Other good men qualified but slipped out early-Francis Ouimet. T. Philip Perkins, Dr. 0. F. Willing, Johnny Goodman, George Voight. Only one man broke par in the first qualifying round. It was Jones. His two-round total of 142. which...
...William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, leaving a reception given him at the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans, had his arm caught in the open door of a passing automobile, received a bloody wound. "It won't bother me. It's nothing at all," said he. But friends took him to have the wound sewed...
...very well before he was a man at all and nobody has given any reason why he ceased to be an ape. ... In producing a new and cunning big-brained animal with hands, nature overshot her mark and we are now struggling with the consequences," asserted Dr. H. S. Harrison, curator of the Horniman Museum and Library, London, to B. A. A. S. anthropologists. Later Paleolithic man was as smart as modern man. If he were living today, he could easily become a good mechanic or a bishop. Much of what passes for intelligence in our present civilization is simply...