Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vice President Garner, who was amusing himself by trying to find a suitable Easter new hat (see cut), was rumored to disapprove and Senator Pat Harrison was noncommittal. Nonetheless, Congress likes to spend money, particularly in election years and the program was shrewdly divided so that every State and section could be sure of a fat share. In the last depression Congress habitually gave the President lump sums to spend as he wished. Best guess last week was that Congress would indeed give the President what he wanted but this time with more specific instructions as to precisely where...
...President to address a message to a Congressional conference committee is unconventional, if not utterly unprecedented. Precedents mean nothing to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. To Pat Harrison and Bob Doughton, chairmen respectively of Senate Finance and House Ways & Means Committees, members of which were starting the ticklish job of compromising between the two tax bills passed by their respective chambers, he dispatched a 1,000-word letter, recommending in effect that the conference adopt the House bill which, unlike the Senate's, retains at least a portion of the Administration's pet undistributed profits and capital gains tax. Excerpt...
Storm in a Teacup (Sara Allgood, Vivien Leigh, Cecil Parker, Rex Harrison; TIME, April...
Storm in a Teacup (Sara Allgood, Vivien Leigh, Cecil Parker, Rex Harrison; TIME, April...
...favor letting the roads go "through the wringer" to reduce top-heavy capitalizations were it not that large insurance companies and banks would suffer greatly. That afternoon he told his press conference that he had decided against the outright subsidy proposed last fortnight by Railway Labor's George Harrison. Subsidies are hard to stop, said the President. What if, for example, the Government had undertaken to subsidize trolley cars ten years ago when that industry went on the skids? Precisely what he would do, said he, he still did not know, but sometime this week he would send recommendations...