Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Learn to Live. She leaves her home among the coalfields and does as he suggests. In Greenwich Village she meets a poet, a painter and a dancer, all Growl's friends and all, like him, incompetent and insincere. True Merrill's only worthy admirer is Michael Harrison (John Boles), a millionaire who subsidizes her Greenwich Village cronies to prove to her that they are no-goods. True Merrill is grateful to Harrison but miserably disillusioned. Her only consolation is the fact that a publisher admires her first novel. A bombastic tirade against tinhorn esthetes, clumsily written and woodenly...
...intimately the trappings of private wealth. Both these attractions were powerfully present last week in Manhattan when Knoedler Galleries opened what many critics considered the peak of the season's shows-a loan exhibit of Goya paintings. The pictures came from the discreet walls of Andrew William Mellon, Harrison Williams, Oscar B. Cintas (American Car & Foundry), Eugene G. Grace, Edward S. Harkness, J. Watson Webb. Mr. & Mrs. Charles Shipman Payson (Joan Whitney) sent their Don Vincente Osorio, Count of Trastamara as a Child from their huge living room in Manhasset. Jules Bache lent his often exhibited Don Manuel Osorio...
...Kansas-Texas Lines ("Katy") which he planned to merge with his Kansas City Southern and with St. Louis Southwestern. The Interstate Commerce Commission refused to approve the merger, forced Railroader Loree to dispose of his holdings, resign the chairmanship of Katy. Last week his successor, Board Chairman & President Michael Harrison Cahill, also resigned, for personal reasons (wife's illness). Katy directors left the presidency vacant, elected as chairman bold, shrewd Matthew Scott Sloan who abruptly resigned from the presidency of New York Edison Co. in 1932. "Matt" Sloan, whose first job was removing dead bugs from street lamps...
...seeing tax bills through, the Senate rested on the patient, sloping shoulders of prosy Reed Smoot, who stood on the floor swinging columns of statistics, ponderously trying to hit the gadflies of the opposition, one of whom, with the most biting sting of all, was Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi. Last week Senator Smoot was in far off Utah serving as a pillar of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.* And Pat Harrison, no longer cast as a gadfly, had to play the heavy, as Chairman of the Finance Committee had to try to hold in check...
...longer the stinging Harrison of yore, he yielded ground to them, even yielded to Huey Long who baited him as he would have baited ten years ago. Before the Senate rewrite was complete. Senator Harrison had agreed to accept amendments that would turn the House's bill to save $250,000,000 from tax leaks into an out-&-out revenue bill to raise $500,000,000 from U. S. taxpayers...