Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Hoover has attempted to improve U. S. diplomatic representation in Latin-America by appointing ministers and ambassadors there who were trained foreign service men. Such a man is Leland Harrison whom President Hoover transferred as Minister from Sweden to Uruguay over Mr. Harrison's protest. At Montevideo, listed by the State Department as one of the five most expensive posts in the world, Minister Harrison, unable to find suitable quarters elsewhere, took a hotel suite at $18,000 per year, as against a rental allowance of $3,000 per year. He began to write letters to Secretary...
...Ansco, Dill Tobacco; and Erickson, which had these accounts among others, gains service facilities of which it has long felt the need. Erickson had only one office (in Manhattan), while McCann has seven in the U. S., three in Europe, four affiliated in Canada. McCann Co., headed by Founder Harrison King McCann, is the larger of the combining bodies, but Erickson, headed by Founder Alfred William Erickson, goes back to a more remote period in advertising's past...
From Maine farmhouse to Manhattan penthouse has traveled Harrison King McCann, who believes in an "open door" office and encourages his executives to stand on their own feet, think with their own brains. A frequent host, a frequent guest, he sings & plays much and well; likes horses, dogs, hunting, billiards, golf (in which his national handicap was once 8), says with modest mendacity that he does many things, all badly. He has a reverse superstition about the number thirteen, for his company is called the Thirteen Company.* His chief abhorrence is modern...
Mississippi. Democratic Senator Pat Harrison and seven Democratic Congressmen were renominated without opposition. Congressmen Ross Alexander Collins won renomination after a close contest. The Senate Slush Fund Committee held a special meeting at Fargo, N. Dak., to investigate charges that Chicago detectives were trailing its chairman, Senator Gerald Nye of North Dakota. One detective admitted that he had been assigned the task of looking up Senator Nye's "life" but insisted he was not trying to get something on him. Asked by newsmen if he thought the detective had been employed by friends of Illinois' Republican Senatorial Nominee...
Clarence De Mar, marathon runner, schoolteacher, on his way to lecture, missed his train, trotted 38 mi. from Harrison to Portland. Me., took another train, got there on time...