Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prospect of economy rested chiefly on Franklin Roosevelt's intention of keeping Congressmen from voting funds for new schemes, on the unanimous feeling of such legislative leaders as Vice President Garner, Senators Byrnes and Harrison, Representatives Doughton, Rayburn and Speaker Bankhead, that the Budget must be balanced and new taxes not imposed. But the prospect of economy was not for any material reduction in expenses. It was for holding expenses at about present levels...
...Poughkeepsie Regatta, in which Yale, Harvard and Princeton are the only major crews that do not compete, eight times in the last 13 races. California crews won the Olympic championship in 1928 and 1932, a Washington crew in 1936. Other colleges with Washington-trained head coaches are: Cornell (Harrison Sanford...
...Ohio is pastor of Cincinnati's People's Church. Secretary of State of Iowa is Dr. Robert Enlow O'Brian, Methodist minister and onetime president of Morningside College in Sioux City. Currently many a New Jersey Republican favors, as lis next gubernatorial candidate, Rev. Lester Harrison Clee, State Senator and pastor of Newark's Second Presbyterian Church...
...maintaining an independent judiciary, but who, after losing a few cases before that august body, grew tired of it all and decided that doing away with it was the easiest way out. But somehow to change color like a chameleon is not unusual in public life today. Senator Harrison, for instance, can be counted on for a new tax measure shortly after he predicts that no new taxes will be needed. Governor Eccles will go out and create huge bank deposits and excess reserves and then have the temerity to issue a statement denying that monetary influences have anything...
...Harrison's recent campaign was apparently directed wholly at U. S. brokers handpicked .for their innocence. According to the instrument giving him his commission he was to have deposited to his account ?200 for each ?500 membership sold, a 40% fee. He at first announced that only 50 memberships would be allotted to New York, but last week it came out that he had authority to sell as many as he could...