Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Goaded to action by the discovery that the House tax bill permits many million-a year firms to dodge all federal income taxes, the Senate Finance Committee has begun to reform Roosevelt's latest brain child. Disregarding administration duress, Chairman Harrison has demanded complete information on the proposed levies before reporting to the Senate...
...recently mailed to all Senators, in which the Judge was compared unfavorably to Lord Chancellor Jeffreys of the Bloody Assizes. Those few Senators who stuck it out paid little attention. In cloakrooms they had previously settled the matter. To aid their popular colleague, Mississippi's senior Senator Pat Harrison, who was backing the nomination, to show "The Man" Bilbo that neophyte Senators should not make nuisances of themselves on the floor, they swamped (59-to-4) his motion to recommit the nomination to committee, confirmed Judge Holmes's upping...
Died. Dr. William Holland Wilmer, 72, famed eye surgeon whose patients included Presidents Harrison, Cleveland, McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Harding, Coolidge; Charles Augustus Lindbergh, King Prajadhipok of Siam, Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Booth Tarkington; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. In 1925 grateful friends and patients opened in his honor the $4,000,000 Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, best equipped and most renowned institution of its kind...
Died. Albert Harrison Brundage, 74, noted toxicologist; of lobar pneumonia; in Central Islip, L.I. Wealthy from his writings, he gave so liberally to charity and scientific research that two months ago, bankrupt and broken in health, he was evicted from his Woodhaven, L.I. home...
Besides these notable concerts, another most interesting one is to take place at Jordan Hall on Wednesday evening, namely the joint recital of Beatrice Harrison, the famous English cellist, and Henri Deering, American pianist. Both of these are artists of the first rank and there is every reason to believe that the occasion will be a most satisfying one. The program combines the virtues of the new and the old and includes the Brahms Sonata in E minor for Cello and Piano and a recent Sonata for Cello and Piano by Arnold Bax, receiving its first American performance on Wednesday...