Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Belgium, Jefferson Caffery (Ambassador to Cuba) to be Ambassador to Brazil, J. Butler Wright (Minister to Czechoslovakia) to be Ambassador to Cuba, William H. Hornibrook (onetime Minister to Iran) to be Minister to Costa Rica, Ferdinand L. Mayer (Counselor of Embassy in Berlin) to be Minister to Haiti, Leland Harrison (Minister to Rumania) to be Minister to Switzerland, Hugh R. Wilson (Minister to Switzerland) and George S. Messersmith (Minister to Austria) to be Assistant Secretaries of State...
...first battle of the River Raisin was fought Jan. 22, 1813, not more than three blocks from where tear gas routed the CIO picket line June 10, 1937. It was an engagement between 800 Kentucky militiamen sent by General William Henry Harrison for the relief of General Hull at Detroit and about 1,500 British and Indians. The Americans arrived at the River Raisin Jan. 18 and dispersed a small British force. Three days later the British returned, found the Americans asleep, with no sentries posted, and fell upon them, killing some 150 and taking the rest prisoners. "Remember...
...Childs Fund are to be: Yale's Medicine Dean Stanhope Bayne-Jones, a bacteriologist and Rockefeller Foundation protege; his predecessor as dean, Pathologist Milton Charles Winternitz, who at the American Medical convention announced new discoveries about the hardening of arteries; Rudolph John Anderson, biochemist; Dr. Ross Granville Harrison, biologist who began the artificial cultivation of living tissues, for which the Rockefeller Institute's Alexis Carrel is more famed; Rockefeller Institute's Francis Peyton Rous. whose discovery of a type of cancer (Rous's sarcoma) which can be transplanted from one chicken to another gave students...
...spot notable feats of word-spouting and to reward them with 50? diplomas, all "Doctor of Oratory,'' all cum laude or better. Its ceremonial dinner at the Mayflower Hotel brought 125 acceptances out of 130 invitations issued to Washington correspondents, three Cabinet members, one Senator (Pat Harrison), but no Representatives...
When Under Secretary Roswell Magill, who followed his boss, did little more than rehearse the different kinds of tax dodges already outlined by the President, even Senator Harrison became impatient. What were some of the names of those people who bought single payment life insurance policies in the Bahamas, then borrowed back their payment and claimed deductions for the interest they paid on it? Mr. Magill said that the Treasury thought it best to have its experts testify on the different types of tax avoidance, one by one, giving names and examples as they went...