Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week-end to the Woodmont Rod & Gun Club in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Hancock, Md., the President took his party's sturdiest political wheelhorses-Jack Garner, Joe Robinson, Pat Harrison, Joe Byrns, Jim Farley. After a lunch of venison steak the party retired to the sun-sparkling private lake, where the President reeled in the day's best catch- ten trout, the legal limit. Followed a dinner of broiled pheasant, after which chairs were drawn about a crackling fire and six professional politicos put heads together to scheme their way out of the Bonus...
...Senate assembled to vote, everyone knew that there was one form the Bonus would not take: it would not take the form of the Harrison Bill, a compromise that would have cost the Government only a half billion dollars. The veterans wanted more money and had made their wants felt. Before a vote was taken the Harrison Bill was in effect ruled...
After the Senate had brushed the Harrison Bill aside the choice between the Vinson ("sound") Bill and the Patman (greenback) Bill had to be made. Before the vote was taken Bennett Clark got to his feet, declared: "All I say is that this is a naked issue between those who favor the authorization by Congress of the full payment of the Bonus and those who favor tying up the proposition . . . with an entirely separate subject [greenbacks]." The inflationists took him at his word. Elmer Thomas, Huey Long and friends who had voted for the Vinson Bill a few minutes before...
...been passed by a combination of the progressives of all parties and by Democrats loyal to the New Deal because it bears their party label. Many a Democrat has put party loyalty above his own convictions but today such loyalists as Vice President Garner, Senators Joe Robinson and Pat Harrison find it hard to hold together the coalition of New Dealers and Democrats. For at heart the biggest bloc of Democrats still prefers states' rights to centralization of power. Last week's debate on the anti-lynching bill reminded them again. The slowing down of legislation...
Born. To Mrs. Ambrose Harrison of Toronto: a son, her 14th child, her 8th since 1926, when Charles Millar died bequeathing some $500,000 to that Toronto woman who should bear the most children in the ensuing decade. Still in the lead in this babe-stakes are Mrs. Frances Lillian Kenny (eleven), Mrs. Grace Bagnato (nine) (TIME...