Word: harrisse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extreme latitude which is already granted to the term 'novel' must be extended even further to include what Houghton Mifflin's blurb writer calls "A unique and beautiful novel. . ." No reader who finishes Mr. Harriss' delightful book will cavil at the adjectives 'unique and beautiful'; one must add, however, that it is not a novel in any of the several meanings which the word...
...strikingly reminiscent of Virginia Woolf, but never does the reader feel that the author means anything more than his simple and sincere statements. At times the sincerity and simplicity combine to create the impression that the work was intended for children. Such passages are, however, happily rare. Mr. Harriss is consistently and admirably straight-forward, and wholly objective where others have lapsed into subjective nostalgia and weak symbolism. In this lies the principal and indubitable strength of the book...
Times were economic and Priest Coughlin's economics were largely of the heart. He needed facts & figures. In Manhattan in 1932 he met George L. LeBlanc and Robert M. Harriss, unorthodox Wall Streeters who believed the Road to Recovery lay through the Vale of Dollar Devaluation and the Slough of Silver Remonetization. The Priest took them for his guides. Now facts & figures cascaded from his tongue in musical billions, and he had a creed: "There is enough of everything in this nation except money...
Clement Lowell Harriss, Omaha...
...Harriss came from Central High School, Omaha; will graduate summa cum laude in history; has been awarded the Washburn Prize, Greenleaf Scholarship, Carles Wyman Scholarship, Detur Award, and the Thomas Jefferson Coolidge Debating Medal. He was chagrin of Leverett House Committee...