Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides Jimmy Byrnes, Alva Adams-and Jack Garner-the man responsible for aligning votes to beat Leader Barkley and the Administration in this first big Senate showdown of the year, was Pat Harrison. The result showed how much wiser Franklin Roosevelt might have been had he let that shrewd old reliable from Mississippi win the Majority Leadership after Joe Robinson died, instead of intervening for "Dear Alben." Leader Barkley, however, was up against not only Garner, Adams, Byrnes, Harrison & Co., he was also up against a Trend. Of 35 Senators elected or re-elected last November, 21 voted for Economy...
...wherein States would levy income taxes against the salaries of Federal employes. John Hanes's understanding of the scarcity and paucity of new tax avenues, and of the woes of taxpayers-for whom he often personally holds court-makes him a darling of the Garner-Harrison economy bloc in the new Congress, a group which had no love for Mr. Oliphant. He should be able to wheedle more revenue-raising taxes from them than any social experimenter...
...summer of 1929, Faulkner was back in Oxford, and his financial situation was getting desperate. He had written a brilliant, bitter, difficult book, The Sound and the Fury, which Publisher Harrison Smith assured him would not sell. He had married Mrs. Estelle Oldham Franklin, an Oxford girl who had two children by a previous marriage. To make money he wrote a horror story, Sanctuary. It was rejected, too. He got a job shoveling coal at the Oxford power plant for $100 a month, working from 6 p. m. to 6 a. m. From midnight until 4 a. m. he wrote...
...Probable revolts against the Administration will be led by Senators Harrison on Taxation, Smith on Farm Relief, Byrd on Reorganization, Vandenberg on Social Security revision, Hatch on politics-in-Relief. A fight, hot and early, was promised over a bill which Democrat King of Utah filed, calling for the dissolution of WPA in 90 days and the return of Relief, still federally financed, to the States. Leaders of a movement to continue WPA but earmark its appropriations in Congress (contrary to President Roosevelt's wish), will be South Carolina's Byrnes and Montana's Murray, hitherto Administration...
...organizing the Senate the Administration might have had trouble this year for in the new Senate "moderate" (economy-minded) Democrats outnumber New Dealers. For this reason Mississippi's Pat Harrison might have ousted Kentucky's Barkley, the Majority Leader who beat him out by one vote in 1937 with Franklin Roosevelt's aid. Instead, Senator Harrison chose last week not to run for Leader this year: he did not want the job of spokesman for the Administration. "Dear Alben" was re-elected by acclamation and Illinois' elegant, whiskery old James Hamilton ("J. Ham") Lewis was persuaded...