Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John N. Vincent 1G, Roger J. Voskuyl 1G, Henry S. Wann 37, paul L. Ward 1G, Earle H. Webster '36, Harold P. Welch '36, Roger U. Wellington '37, Karl R. Whitney '35, Paul S. Winch '35, John J. Witherspoon '37, Willard G. Woelper 2L, Donald T. Wood '37, Harrison Wood '36, James A. E. Wood...
...Adams of Colorado, Shipstead of Minnesota, Thomas of Oklahoma. Absent was Silverite Wheeler of Montana who did not believe there was any use in more talk. The President was buttressed by non-silver advisers: Governor Black of the Federal Reserve, Secretary Morgenthau and Counselor Oliphant of the Treasury, Senator Harrison, Senate Finance Chairman...
...hour and twenty minutes the President talked. ("We discussed silver," said Senator Harrison, "from the time of the finding of the first nugget.") He tried to induce them to modify their proposal, told them that he could not accept it as it stood...
...Representative Tom Cullen from the sidewalks of Brooklyn's Red Hook district, Senator Walter George from cotton-picking Georgia, Senator William King from silver-mining Utah and, most important of all. the two chiefs of the conference-for the Senate, a shrewd lawyer from Gulfport, Miss, named Pat Harrison and for the House a leathery old farmer from the hills of North Carolina named Robert Doughton...
Between the bill which Representative Doughton and his Ways & Means colleagues spent all last autumn working over and the bill which the Senate, under Pat Harrison's guidance, carved out in three weeks of debate there was a difference of $220,000,000-in revenue for the Treasury, in taxes for taxpayers. The House and Senate bills simply bracketed the field within which the ten conferees were to agree upon a final compromise law acceptable to both chambers...