Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Appomattox Day, April 9, 1890, when Benjamin Harrison was the seventh Republican President of the U. S., two young Chicago lawyers named Robert McMurdy and Lester Coffeen opened a Republican social club in a three-story white stone house facing Lake Michigan. Last week to old Lawyer McMurdy, 77, and many another stanch Republican member came the news that the Hamilton Club, for four decades one of the most famous political fraternities in the U. S., was about to close its doors...
...world of Mayfair, however, Photographer Beaton's delicate infusions of the cockeyed into the swank have long seemed divine. After a gala summer, including a trip to Cande to make exclusive portraits for Vogue of his friend the Duchess of Windsor and a visit to his friend Mrs. Harrison ("Best Dressed") Williams at her villa on Capri, slim Cecil Beaton was in Manhattan this week a-tiptoe for the U. S. publication of his Scrapbook.) ± Sure to grace drawing rooms wherever there are bright young things, this rococo collection displays not only smart photographs of Britain...
Though Philip Murray and George Harrison are two of the ablest labor negotiators in the land, their assignment was nearly superhuman. They strained for cordiality, addressed each other as "George" and "Phil." They posed reluctantly for newsreel cameramen shaking hands-without sound effects. Mustering a sour smile, Phil Murray observed: "This will look pretty fishy." And George Harrison answered: "Yes, when they see this the rank & file will decide here's where we sold them down the river...
...document was thrown at A.F. of L. was tough Joseph Curran, president of C.I.O.'s new National Maritime Union. Asked why the meeting had broken up, he snapped: "Hell, you can't expect men to come out of a dead faint and go right on negotiating." George Harrison, added the hardboiled seaman, was "still quivering...
...Manhattan, all but twelve passengers were ordered off the President Polk, in San Francisco 48 round-the-world tourists were turned out of the President Harrison and both vessels were given freighters' licenses which limit passengers to twelve. Passenger certificates lifted from other lines included the British owned Western Prince, which sails under U. S. Marine inspection certificate and United Fruit's liner Tivvies. Quickly the Dollar Line found means to make the long delayed alterations. Within a week the Presidents Pierce and Taft were extending their fire detecting systems and plans were completed to equip the line...