Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only ray in this atmosphere of almost universal gloom was the leadership of the peace delegations. Speaking for A. F. of L. at the big oval table on the third floor of the Willard was George Harrison of the Railway Clerks, stocky, 42-year-old head of A. F. of L. railroad department and president of the potent Railway Labor Executives association...
Last week Southern Railway Co.'s twelve directors convened in Manhattan's 60 Wall Tower for their monthly meeting and annual election of officers. Scholarly President Fairfax Harrison walked in and sat down in the slot of a huge old semicircular, yellow pine dispatcher's table. The minutes read. Mr. Harrison rose and, instead of passing the chair to someone else while his name was put in nomination (as he had done for a quarter of a century), he quietly announced to the board that he wished to retire. Having served the Southern since he joined...
Tycoons in Manhattan were last week offered for the first time a luxury already enjoyed in about one of every seven homes in Holland. The select list who followed the example of 340,000 Dutchmen already included Harrison Williams of North American Co., Walter Gifford of American Telephone & Telegraph, John A. Hartford of A. & P., Motorman Walter P. Chrysler. Oilman J. Paul Getty. For a fee of $50 a month these notables contracted to have the best of the world's music on tap in their homes (without aid of radio or phonograph) just as they have hot water...
...Trading Corp.., he was a millionaire many times over and the floater of Wall Street's two most spectacular investment trusts, Shenandoah and Blue Ridge. When they collapsed with Depression, Waddill Catchings, by then a director of 29 corporations, left Goldman, Sachs, has since been associated with Millionaire Harrison Williams whose North American Co. with $900,000.000 assets is one of the biggest utility holding companies in the U. S. Muzak Corp. is owned by Wired Radio, Inc., which is a subsidiary of North American, run largely in hope of increasing the use and uses of electricity. Waddill Catchings...
Jews are the world's biggest consumers of onions and there are more Jews in New York City than anywhere else in the world. Therefore Manhattan is the world's onion capital. There in a slick red and white office with a deep onion aroma, at 40 Harrison St., works sleek, well-fed Benjamin Balish, 41, who bears the proud title of U. S. "Onion King." Last week Ben Balish, after years of distinguished partnerships, completed arrangements for going into business solely for himself...