Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Goes West. Provost Gow of Baikie (Cecil Parker), treading pompously toward Parliament, stumbled over Mrs. Honoria Hegarty's (Sara Allgood's) dog. Patsy, and her without the money to buy him a license at all. With the twists given this incident by a bright young journalist (Rex Harrison), Patsy's grief is heard all the way to London, and the resulting sympathy nearly forces Provost Gow into the political doghouse. But his daughter Victoria (Vivien Leigh) brings everybody to heel...
...lengths in choppy water; in the goth meeting of the two universities; over 4 1/4 twisting miles of the Thames from Putney Bridge to Mortlake Brewery. It was Oxford's second successive victory after 13 successive losses. Only Americans in the race were the Cambridge coxswain, Harvardman Thomas Harrison Hunter, who walks with crutches ashore, and the strongest Cambridge oar Gordon Keppel, Princeton's 1935-36 crew captain...
Since retiring from boxing seven years ago, William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, former world heavyweight champion, has given his name to a Manhattan restaurant and bar, a hotel in Miami, a chocolate bar, a whiskey. Last week he gave it to Jack Dempsey's Sports Magazine. Wrote Editor Dempsey: "Hello, folks! Well, here it is. ... There never will be any dirt or filth in the pages of this magazine. Sports are essentially healthy and clean...
When the railroaders got together with the President this week for their last say in the matter, they brought a plan cooked up by chunky George Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives Association. Labor's George Harrison suggested that the Government grant the railroads an outright subsidy sufficient to bring their revenues to the normal $800,000,000 a year. This might mean a Government outlay of as much as $465,000,000, would presumably be produced by RFC. John Jeremiah Pelley of the Association of American Railroads nodded in approval. So did his committee of presidents: Frederick...
...Commissioners Walter M. W. Splawn, Joseph B. Eastman and Charles D. Mahttie. Meantime, in Washington, the Association of American Railroads and the Railway Labor Executives Association "decided to wait and see what the President is going to do'' before discussing wage cuts. Said R.L.E.A. President George L. Harrison after the meeting: "They told us how poor they were." Said A.A.R. President J. J. Pelley: "And they told us how poor they were...