Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tenants of the White House -Mrs. Thomas J. Preston Jr. (formerly Cleveland), Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs. William Howard Taft, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Clark Hoover, and also Mrs. Benjamin Harrison who never was a tenant*-were sent invitations last week to attend the second inaugural of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jan. 20. The political sympathies of few if any of the invitees would lead them to attend, but if they declined they would miss an opportunity to see the present tenant of the White House in his best form. For last week he entered...
...Mexican Cinemactress Dolores Del Rio, almost lifesize, in color. ¶A "composograph" (frankly doctored picture) of Gypsy Rose Lee. strip teaser, in conversation with Mrs. Harrison Williams, "world's best-dressed woman." Sample imaginary dialog: Williams: "I never wear the same thing twice. And you?" Lee: "I never put off tomorrow what I can put off today...
...aside for a long chat. For the rest of that day and the next and the next, cue-seekers passed in procession through the White House offices. Those interested in immediate or routine questions-inauguration ceremonies (Admiral Gary T. Grayson), CCC continuation (Director Fechner), tax revision (Senator Pat Harrison, Representative Bob Doughton), budget (Secretary Morgenthau, Chairman Eccles of the Federal Reserve)-got immediate answers. But Franklin Roosevelt, having waved aside for a whole month matters of second-term policy, gave no sign that he was ready promptly on return to give cues on such major projects as reviving the substance...
...potency of Mr. Davies' political backing was indicated by the guests honoring him at a private dinner in Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel last week. With Senator Pat Harrison as honorary chairman and Senator James F. Byrnes as toastmaster, the list included Postmaster General Farley, Presidential Secretaries McIntyre and Early, Senators Barkley, Copeland, Davis, Duffy, McAdoo, Tycoons Walter P. Chrysler and Gerard Swope...
Died. Russell Benjamin Harrison, 82, only son of 23rd President Benjamin Harrison and great-grandson of 9th President William Henry Harrison; in Indianapolis. He was successively an engineer, U. S. Assay Office superintendent, cattle rancher, journalist (Judge), lawyer and Mexican consul at Indianapolis...