Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Political songs and torchlight parades raged throughout the 19th Century. Peak came with the Log Cabin-Hard Cider campaign (1840) conducted by the Whigs in behalf of General William H. Harrison, hero of Tippecanoe, and his running-mate, John Tyler. Opponent was Democrat Martin Van Buren of New York, who prompted the Whigs to sing...
...Chicago last fortnight Conservation Director Samuel Barry Locke of the Izaak Walton League screwed up his courage, wrote a letter to Senator Harrison asking point-blank what truth there was in the rumor that he had used his influence to bring the Walley brothers' case to its shocking conclusion. Back came a prompt and courteous reply. "To the extent that I had known these young men and their parents over a great number of years," wrote the Senator, "I did attest to their character. ... If my letter to the District Attorney asking for leniency brought any results...
Comptroller General? If Pat Harrison goes down to defeat in Mississippi's pri-mary this summer, it will not be a sentence of exile from his beloved Washington. A level-headed party regular whose lack of enthusiasm for some New Deal experiments has not abated his zeal helping to bring them into being, he has served his President with a loyalty which cannot well go unrewarded. The Comptroller Generalship, which John R. McCarl will vacate July 1, is believed by many to be his for the asking. In that $15,000-per-year job he would be sure...
...asked us to do this, and we simply reported that it had been done," explained Chairman George M. Harrison of the Committee of Railway Labor Executives as he left the White House one morning last week with a party of men in two groups. One group represented 85% of U. S. railroad operators; the other, 20 of the 21 standard U. S. railroad unions. What President Roosevelt had asked for and what the two groups had after months of difficult negotiation given him was the first national agreement ever made in the U. S. governing the disposition of employes...
...systems and a reasonable volume of business, Mr. Young hopes to bring the price of investment counsel service down within common reach. His plans include a nationwide organization with one office in each Federal Reserve district. Backer-directors of Young Management Corp. are Lawyer George Gordon Battle; Milton Whately Harrison, a trustee of Manhattan's huge Bowery Savings Bank; Giles G. Healey, scion of Boston's onetime carriage-building family; and Howard Earle Coffin, chairman of Southeastern Cottons, Inc. and reputedly the heaviest investor in Mr. Young's latest firm. Eventually there will be only two 42nd...