Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Better than any living man, Senator Byron Patton Harrison of Mississippi represents in his own spindle-legged, round-shouldered, freckle-faced person the modern history of the Democratic Party. For all but a fraction of the years since the fledgling Republican Party rose to power in 1860, the lot of the Democrats in national politics has been to denounce and deplore. For all but a fraction of his 17 Senatorial years, Pat Harrison, a Democrat by temperament as well as by birth and conviction, has played his Party's historic role with superb skill and enjoyment...
Wrote the Saturday Evening Post of Senator Harrison in 1923: "He is the official sniper and sharpshooter of the Democratic side. ... He is constantly rising to his feet behind the desk that once belonged to Jefferson Davis and planting a poisoned dart or a red-hot bullet in the person of a Republican Senator or thrusting a keen harpoon into the Republican Party, or casting with unerring aim a wreath of poison ivy upon the brows of President Harding...
That portrait of an irresponsible critic remained accurate throughout the Coolidge and Hoover regimes. Even as late as 1932 Senator Harrison was still being spurred to flights of irony by such items as a Government pamphlet which he called "The Love Life of a Bullfrog." But the portrait bears no recognizable likeness to the Pat Harrison...
Metamorphosis. Three times since the Civil War has the Democratic Party been sobered by the awful power of simultaneous possession of the Presidency and Congress. It was Pat Harrison's destiny to be a senior Senator on the third occasion. No politician in memory has undergone so profound and startling a metamorphosis. As if W. C. Fields were to begin playing Othello, Senator Harrison has become a legislative drudge...
...Juanita Harrison is a 45-year-old Negro lady's-maid who never stays long in one place. She invariably resigns her domestic job before she is fired. To Juanita work is simply the means of making enough money to move on. She began her travels at 16, and gradually got the ambitious notion of going round the world. In 1927 she had enough money saved to start. This diary of her eight-year journey through 22 countries was arranged (but not corrected) by the daughter of one of her employers-by-the-way. The title was not Juanita...