Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whom do you represent?" demanded Chairman Pat Harrison...
Senator Pat Harrison emerged from the committeeroom rubbing his hands. "We have simply turned the bill into a revenue measure," he announced. By that he meant that it was expected to raise $464,000,000 instead of the $275,000,000 expected from the House bill...
...hope you will not ask me that question." "I have no intention," shot back Chairman Harrison, "of trying to embarrass you but, if possible, to remove our own embarrassment. ... It is apparent to me that this House Bill has been based on the Treasury's recommendations...
...President Roosevelt, not Secretary Morgenthau, not Senate Finance Committee Chairman Pat Harrison, not Share-the-Wealther Huey Long, in fact hardly anyone except the rawboned, 6 ft.-2 in. North Carolina mountaineer who is Chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee had a good word to say in public for the measure. Against Chairman Doughton's loyal but half-hearted defense rose the critical outcry of thousands of Republicans, businessmen, plain citizens. Declared Republican Ways & Means Committeemen in their minority report...
...your opinion," asked Chairman Harrison, "do the provisions of the House Bill conform to the President's suggestions?" Secretary Morgenthau reflected, finally replied: "You place me in a very embarrassing position when you ask me about a bill already introduced in the House...