Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there is no place they can be put on." When the roll calls were taken, however, the Byrnes amendment was defeated 58 to 25, the Robinson amendment 49 to 34, but among those 34 were 22 Democrats (not counting three who were paired for it). And the names of Harrison, Glass, Byrnes, Pittman, Bankhead, Bailey, Connally, Clark, Russell, Democratic stalwarts all, were every one of them recorded supporting Joseph T. Robinson and opposing Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...blue leather. On the long bench were little placards identifying the committeemen for the audience. In the centre sat old Representative Bob Doughton of Laurel Springs, N. C., chairman of the joint committee, his bald dome almost as bright as his Palm Beach suit; at his left, Senator Pat Harrison, vice chairman...
...this expedition, beginning this week, would not greatly enliven Washington's hottest weeks and not give the newspapers something very much better to talk about than strikes and the President's defeat on the Court Plan, observers suspected when Mr. Garner put Mississippi's urbane Pat Harrison at the head of a crew among whom only Wisconsin's La Follette really thirsts for millionaire blood. The others were Massachusetts' tame Walsh, Utah's sick King, Georgia's bland George, calm Capper of Kansas. From the House, where quick thinking by Representative...
...Messrs. Harrison & Doughton went promptly to the White House to get instructions as to just how Franklin Roosevelt wanted his millionaires taken: gently in nets, with hook-line-&-sinker, or by harpoon. What he told them was not, of course, revealed. But Washington soon guessed that harpooning Old Deal millionaires while gently netting or releasing New Deal millionaires, was going to call for nice piscatorial skill. Before sailing time on Wednesday the fishermen very properly refused to name their quarry. They left that to their guide and first witness, Secretary Morgenthau. But Senator Harrison announced politely: "I am sure that...
Somebody stole Senator Pat Harrison's car from in front of his Washington residence...