Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...capacity as President of the Senate, is in a mood for quick action, his methods are direct. Last week, as the clerk read each section of the Senate Finance Committee's 371-page, $5,000,000,000 1938 Tax Bill, Mr. Garner glanced down at Committee Chairman Pat Harrison, whacked his gavel on the desk, grunted: "Without objection, amendments agreed to. . . ." Five hours after the bill came up for debate Mr. Garner turned the chair over to Indiana's Minton, with a cheery comment: "We've passed 224 pages in 20 minutes-not bad." Two days later...
...late Huey Long took over Louisiana State University, started a $10,000,000 building program. Last month Louisiana's Governor Richard Leche invited Italian Ambassador Fulvio Suvich, Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace and Managing Editor Walter Harrison of the wealthy Oklahoman & Times to help dedicate the college's $1,200,000 Agricultural Center Coliseum. Last week, these oddly assorted dignitaries succeeded in turning the ceremonies into an interesting verbal fracas...
Fracas began when Ambassador Suvich was quoted in an interview as saying that modern Italy is a "high speed democracy." As first speaker on the Coliseum program, Editor Harrison impolitely undertook to correct him. Said he: "For the past 16 years Mussolini has operated a supreme dictatorship with a cabinet of stooges and a puppet king. If that is Democracy, we want none...
...this Ambassador Suvich's haughty reply was, "I came here merely to participate in the dedication ceremonies . . . not to discuss politics," but as the successor to the closest thing to a dictator the U. S. has yet produced, Governor Leche felt called on to make apologies for Mr. Harrison. Said he: "There is an old saying that the pen is mightier than the sword. I think our friend resents any advantage on the part of the sword...
...Franklin Roosevelt replied to this proposal was not disclosed, but grapevine rumor reported him as dubious of its practicality. He was also reported to have asked that no wages be cut by the roads. When George Harrison and fellows emerged from the White House after two hours all he would say was: "We presented the joint views of railroad labor and management. . . . The next move is up to the President." With many a major road ready to totter at any moment, it seemed unlikely that Franklin Roosevelt would delay more than a few days...