Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ample opportunity to quote the impressions of "Swing." However, there is another term that eludes definition-''Corn." Being a pseudo-musician, I have glibly and authoritatively used it without a quaver. But at last one malicious person demanded a translation, and I was pretty well stopped. . . . STEVE HARRISON...
Last week Chairman Pat Harrison and his friends on the Senate Finance Committee put a white handkerchief into a hat and pulled out the same handkerchief with a rabbit painted on it. In short, they took the Bonus Bill passed by the House (TIME, Jan. 20) and wrote an entirely new bill, almost identical in effect. That was magic for it removed the political curse of the House bill, which had been frankly dictated by the three powerful veterans' lobbies, and substituted a bill that the veterans had not dictated but which satisfied them just as well...
Only thing the Senate had to do when Senator Harrison and his friends had finished their trick bill was to rubber stamp it. The bill went smashing through with a vote of 74-to-16 Only four Senators up for re-election in 1936 voted against it: Glass of Virginia, Conzens of Michigan, Hastings of Delaware, Keyes of New Hampshire. Triumphant were veterans' chiefs who calculated that the House would approve the bill, send it to the President before this week ends...
Applying for a pistol permit, Lawyer Charles Clyde Pettijohn, general counsel of the Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America, town councilman of Harrison, N. Y., gave as character references Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Will Hays, J. Edgar Hoover and George William Cardinal Mundelein, got the permit...
Last week Leader Bankhead was back at his Capitol office, promising that this year the New Deal should not go leaderless in the House. Already Washington was filling up with the bigwigs of Congress. Democrats from Speaker Byrns to Senator Harrison were singing the same old tune: a short and peaceful session adjourning in May. If that was to happen it would require much good work on Leader Bankhead's part, and he himself had no illusions. Said he: "I look for a snappy session but not necessarily a short...