Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three subordinates on whom President Roosevelt depends to win his Senate victories are Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas, the bull-voiced, heavy-fisted field commander; Pat Harrison of Mississippi, the shrewd committee and cloakroom horsetrader; and James F. Byrnes of South Carolina, the suave personal envoy. All three were present one noon last week when Senator Robinson summoned newsmen to his office to discuss the President's breathtaking proposal for rejuvenating the Judiciary (TIME, Feb. 15). Talk skimmed over various features of the plan. "Speaking solely for Joe Robinson." the 64-year-old Majority Leader, who hopes...
...astonishing misapprehension of Senators Robinson, Byrnes & Harrison was typical of the confusion which prevailed in Washington last week after the first shock of the President's proposal had passed. California's Hiram Johnson, Missouri's Bennett Champ Clark and Montana's Burton K. Wheeler made up their minds against the plan. But after the first quick division for & against, the 30-odd remaining Senators who held the balance of power were lying low, waiting to see how the wind blew. Letters from constituents and memorials from State Legislatures were mostly pro-Court, but there were enough...
...carried a line about it. Reason: defendant was the Chicago Tribune ("World's Greatest Newspaper") and publishers usually do not play up the libel difficulties of their brethren.* What made the Tribune's trouble all the more remarkable were the character and quality of its accuser, Harrison McGowen Parker, who in his high- flying career has been business manager of the Tribune, publisher of the Chicago American...
...suit for $1,500,000 was not taken seriously by the Tribune until the State Supreme Court, reviewing the embezzlement case, found Parker innocent in February 1934. Meanwhile, Harrison Parker was doing everything in his power to make the Tribune sick at the thought of him. Discovering that since 1873 the paper had paid no State capital stock tax (few Illinois corporations bother to). Harrison Parker filed suit as a citizen to compel the Tribune...
...George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe and William Henry Harrison, who died prior...