Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Pat Harrison made the Administration's chief point that 16 such trade agreements have been made and since 1934 trade with those nations has increased from $1,400,000,000 to $1,900,000,000. Republicans hammered back with the argument that the bill delegated too much power to the President. More point was added by Senator Vandenberg when he said: Since the agreements were made, "our exports to Canada . . . went up 17%, but our imports from Canada . . . went up 30%. Our exports to Cuba went up 11%, but our imports from Cuba went up 19% Our exports...
...Called upon Congress to pass the pending Harrison-Black-Fletcher bill which would appropriate $100,000,000 to the States for school purposes...
Well into its second year is SEC's investment trust investigation, the specimen under the microscope last week being Harrison Williams' Central States Electric Corp. (see below). SEC's findings to date have not been precisely flattering to investment trust management-which was not surprising in view of the fact that the investigation's prime purpose was to find out why investors lost upwards of $5,000,000,000 in investment trust securities during Depression. But in 1936 the trust managers demonstrated that they had learned a lot since they took off with ceiling zero...
...rare flower of U. S. wealth is Mona Strader Schlesinger Bush Williams, better known as Mrs. Harrison Williams, "best-dressed woman in the world." Born in Kentucky some 40 summers ago, she married first Henry J. Schlesinger of Milwaukee's iron-&-coke family, then Manhattan Banker James Irving Bush, finally and most successfully Harrison Williams, 23 years her elder, a quiet specialist in utility finance. To the adornment of their three houses-on upper Fifth Avenue at Bayville, L. I., at Palm Beach-Mrs. Williams has devoted her professional knowledge of porcelains, her flair for the paler sort...
...with conservatism and entrenched wealth. Half the Senators who voted against him are now dead or retired, but of those who remain the great majority are today opposed to President Roosevelt's Court plan: Borah, Glass, Connally, George, Hiram Johnson, Nye, Wheeler. Vice-versa, Senators Ashurst and Pat Harrison, both now pro-Roosevelt, were then both pro-Hughes, and Senator Robinson was paired in his favor. Only a few, notably Hugo Black and Bob La Follette, were against Mr. Hughes then...