Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great surprise when White House Messenger Latta trotted into the Capitol at 2 o'clock that same day with a Presidential document under his arm, trotted out again. What was surprising was that the Roosevelt message should be held back for more than two hours until Senator Pat Harrison could get the Social Security Bill through the Senate (see p. 10). Then Congressmen, quite ignorant of the President's intentions, settled back to hear what he might have...
...mean this year. Radicals insisted he did. Twenty-two Senators headed by Wisconsin's La Follette signed a round robin declaring that Congress should stay in session until the new taxes are enacted. After five days of stewing President Roosevelt summoned Speaker Byrns, Vice President Garner, Senator Harrison, Majority Leader Robinson and Chairman Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee to the White House. After nearly three hours' debate, Senator Robinson emerged to announce that the President had decided to push the tax program through this session of Congress. He proposed to attach it to a joint resolution...
Huey Long, badly frazzled, was ready to quit. Democratic oldsters of the Senate were also ready to trade him permission to march out with the honors of the filibuster if he would agree to a vote next day on the NRA resolution. When Senator Harrison went back to the rear-row neophytes and whispered the leadership's scheme, there was a determined shaking of heads. "Hell.no! We're going to stay here until Long drops in his tracks." An hour passed and Senator Schwellenbach asked another question...
...drawing a creed, not a pla-form," declared Harrison Earl Spangler, Republican National Committeeman from Iowa and one of the promoters of the convention...
Some 350 doctors will report on significant medical studies which they accomplished during the past year-from Philadelphia's Louis Manuel Lieberman & Simon Stein Leopold's "Further Data on Artificial Pneumothorax in Experimental Lobar Pneumonia" to Philadelphia's Charles Harrison Frazier's "The Modern Treatment of Surgical Shock." These papers will keep the A. M. A.'s Journal in ample copy for six months or more...