Word: pats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comparatively harmless size; 3) preserved the semblance of the President's tax proposals. But Chairman Harrison's troubles were not over. The Treasury came back with a report that his compromise would yield only $629,000,000 revenue the first year, $529,000,000 thereafter. Pat Harrison wearily asked the Treasury to try figuring out a bigger yield from the same taxes...
More reason than one had Senator Harrison for his pessimism. Even after he got his bill out of committee, there would remain the arduous task of steering it through Floor debate and conference compromise. And this year Pat Harrison is eager to close up his desk, be off for home. It is not that he dislikes Washington, for no Senator enjoys life in the Capital more than this small town Mississippian. A one time college and semiprofessional pitcher, he likes being where he can get off to a big-league baseball game with Vice President Garner as often as possible...
...Judge Holmes. Now Senator Bilbo saw his chance for revenge, set out to prevent Judge Holmes's confirmation by the Senate. He declared the nominee "personally obnoxious" to him, swore that Judge Holmes had jailed him for political motives. He brought before the Judiciary subcommittee the story of Pat Harrison's financial misfortunes in Gulf Coast real estate, charging that Judge Holmes had ratified the receiver's agreements by which some of Pat Harrison's debts to the defunct First National Bank of Gulfport had been reduced. The Judge admitted that he had done...
...Mississippi family who exert considerable influence in their State's politics. Their late father, a Methodist preacher, was a onetime State Senator, regarded by many wildlife enthusiasts as the source of Racketeer Bogle's political protection. Rev. Columbus Walley was also an old friend of Senator Pat Harrison...
Comptroller General? If Pat Harrison goes down to defeat in Mississippi's pri-mary this summer, it will not be a sentence of exile from his beloved Washington. A level-headed party regular whose lack of enthusiasm for some New Deal experiments has not abated his zeal helping to bring them into being, he has served his President with a loyalty which cannot well go unrewarded. The Comptroller Generalship, which John R. McCarl will vacate July 1, is believed by many to be his for the asking. In that $15,000-per-year job he would be sure...