Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Received from its Finance Committee, which had voted down the Patman (greenback) and Vinson (Legion) bonus bills, the Harrison (compromise) bonus bill (TIME, April...
...morning in 1775 young Harrison Gray Otis, famed nephew of famed Patriot James Otis, found his way to school blocked by a column of British troops in marching order, ready to start for Lexington. Student Otis got to his desk just in time to hear Master Lovell, with vast relief, tell his unruly pupils: "War's begun and school's done. Deponite libros*." There was no more school until General Washington's guns blasted the British out of Boston...
...Offer. Not for one minute did Franklin Roosevelt, expert political horse trader that he is, weaken his bargaining power by admitting he would accept the Harrison compromise. But Senator Harrison flatly asserted that the President would accept it, for his bill offered a very nice compromise...
Every bonus bill has to be concocted by a mathematical expert who can make it look cheap to taxpayers, liberal to veterans, possible to the Treasury. Senator Harrison did not try to concoct anything so difficult out of his own head. He went to the Veterans' Administration, got its best wizard with figures to do the job. Assistant Administrator Harold Walker Breining is a fat, fortyish actuary who, since 1917, when he went overseas in field service for the Division of War Risk Insurance, has been making statistical tables dance jigs for the Government. Mr. Breining found...
Married. Esther Strachey, divorced wife of pinko Economist Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey; and Chester A. Arthur Jr., organizer for Utopia, pinko grandson of the 21st President of the U. S.; in Harrison...