Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate Bone and his junior colleague, Lewis Baxter Schwellenbach, have been faithful Roosevelt men, rewarded with plenty of PWA and WPA money. Bone has shown some independence: he supported Pat Harrison for Senate Leader against the White House demand for "Dear Alben" Barkley, he voted to override the President's bonus veto, and he voted against the Reorganization Bill this year. With these major exceptions, however, Bone's record is that of a consistent New Deal Senator...
...seven other cotton Senators- Georgia's George and Russell, North Carolina's Reynolds, Mississippi's Harrison and Bilbo, Missouri's Clark, Oklahoma's Elmer Thomas-marched on Washington to demand that the Government's present 8.3% cotton loans be upped to the 11.75? maximum (75% of parity) possible under the Act. There they were told that the President was too busy, advised to take their grievances to AAA. Cotton Ed snorted: "These farmers are mad. Why shouldn't they be? ... I have served here under five Presidents preceding this one. I never...
...income $5,000 to $6,000), which reduced the merit of Royal Barry Wills's design to that of a safe investment. For the Smiths of Wyncote, Pa. (income $10,000 to $12,000), Aymar Embury's spacious Colonial house appeared as dignified as all get-out, Harrison & Fouilhoux's severely glass-walled house as daring as the devil...
Last week in San Francisco, Sculptor Thomas Harrison Reed Jr. denied Reader Downing's charge, said: "The elephant was perfectly normal the last time...
Last week 100 members of the House of Delegates, supreme A. M. A. body, met in extraordinary session with 400 officials of local medical organizations in the Red Lacquer Room of Chicago's Palmer House. Purpose: consideration of the proposed Federal health program. Dr. Harrison H. Shoulders of Nashville, Tenn., speaker of the House, Dr. Irvin Abell of Louisville, Ky., president of the Association, and Dr. Rock Sleyster of Wauwatosa, Wis., president-elect, exhorted the delegates. All three opposed "political control," reiterated the A. M. A.'s desire to "benefit the people." Said President Abell, referring...