Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter to Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate's Finance Committee, the President recommended amending the Social Security Act to provide standard payments for 1,100,000 additional prospective beneficiaries, including 175,000 national & certain other bank employes, 180,000 seamen, and 800,000 persons, now 60 or more who, by the existing statute, would get a small lump sum payment instead of annuities...
Wedding Anniversary. Carter Henry Harrison, 77, son of the Chicago mayor murdered in his fifth term during the 1893 World's Fair, himself five times Chicago's mayor, and Edith Ogden Harrison; their 50th; in Chicago. Said spry Mr. Harrison, who nightly takes a drink: "Family spats . . . add spice to married life, provided they are not allowed to go too far." Asked his wife's age, he replies: "She never gives the same one twice...
...exits of most deported foreign correspondents are quiet and quick. Quite a different affair, however, was the expulsion from Yugoslavia's capital last week of Hubert D. Harrison, chief Balkan correspondent for Reuters, British news agency, and part-time reporter for the New York Times. As Mr. Harrison's train pulled out of Belgrade, he got a Channel-swimmer's ovation from a noisy crowd of fellow journalists, students and well-known politicians. Mr. Harrison's exile was in itself unique. It had to do with Mickey Mouse...
...First Regent of Yugoslavia today is Prince Paul, first cousin once removed of King Peter, a minor, an analogy to the Mickey Mouse comic which few foreign papers failed to draw when fortnight ago Mickey Mouse was suppressed from Politika by the Government for two days. Unfortunately for Reporter Harrison, his story implied permanent suppression...
That such a minor journalistic crime would warrant expulsion from Yugoslavia, no one who knew Mr. Harrison's past performance could believe. More significant was the fact that in July Yugoslavia refused to renew Reuters' Harrison's residential permit after he had lived in Yugoslavia 14 years. Powerful because his Slovene Clerical Party was one of the three strong units welded into the present Government Party, Minister of Home Affairs Dr. Anton Koroshets, a Jesuit priest, resented Mr. Harrison's July accounts which described the Government's vain attempt to force the unpopular Concordat with...