Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steamroller go if the engineer turned and argued about his orders? For this reason Franklin Roosevelt wrote as he did last summer to "Dear Alben" to swing his election as Senate Leader, by one grudging vote (38-to-37) away from Mississippi's able but too-independent Pat Harrison...
...Rockport, Mass., where most artists have studios on Bearskin Neck-and the local art association has been embroiled year after year with city fathers over the annual artists ball - the 18th annual show was lively, colorful, included work by Jon Corbino, Leon Kroll, Harrison Cady, better known for his illustrations for Peter Rabbit stories...
...from Hollywood's Carthay Circle, demanded that M-G-M pay regular commercial rates for the air time. NBC took the program as a network sustaining show, but KFI and KECA won their point. They were the only stations paid to carry it. Said KFI-KECA General Manager Harrison Holliway: "A can of celluloid is the same as a can of beans...
...Republican National Convention of 1880, Joseph Buffington cast 36 consecutive votes for Ulysses S. Grant. In the 46 years since 1892, when President Harrison gave him a Federal judgeship, he has written (in longhand) more than 5,000 opinions, filling 243 volumes of the Federal Reporter, wearing out dozens of fountain pens...
...wanted to do something, if a tax factor could do it, that might assist in dispelling fear in the hearts of some people and restoring confidence in the mind of the American business man," said Senator Harrison, but the President's speech made it sound like "a monstrous tax bill," designed to let big taxpayers escape; on the contrary the first thing the bill did was positive-it erased the inequity of the old tax law by letting small businesses pay debts and meet deficits before levying on their undistributed profits, and by exempting all businesses earning less than...