Word: harrison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt to change his mood and tactics. Suddenly honey-sweet to the press he had often lambasted, Franklin Roosevelt now turned his full charm on his opponents: solicitously he consulted Republican leaders about a special session; then on the dissident Democrats. Twice he called the Mississippi fox, Pat Harrison, by long-distance telephone. He condoled Georgia's Walter George on an eye-operation (13 months ago he strove to end George's career). He appointed James Elliott Heath (a close crony of Virginia's Carter Glass for 30 years) as Norfolk customs collector...
...Mississippi rare is the political alliance that lasts out the winter. No observer would guarantee that the State's Bilbonic plague would endure, while one & all agreed that Pat Harrison probably has something up his sleeves besides the choppy golf swing with which he bruises the delicate greensward of the Burning Tree Club near Washington...
This time the chief guardian of U. S. markets was George L. Harrison, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. To aid him he had a crisis committee of nine, and after a fashion history repeated itself: as a member of the committee (as a representative of investment bankers) sat J. P. Morgan's son, slickhaired, tightlipped, amiable Henry Sturgis Morgan (aged 38) of Morgan Stanley...
...immediate crisis that Mr. Harrison and his committee had to face was not in stocks but in U. S. Government bonds. Inflation-minded investors who wished to shift to stocks unloaded Governments. Both for the sake of the Treasury and of U. S. member banks, 70% of whose investments are in direct and guaranteed Government obligations, the market could not be allowed to slide...
...Court to General Evangeline Booth, for which 25,000 tickets had been sold. >At the domed Church of the Sacred Heart on Paris' Montmartre, Cardinal Verdier blessed the overflow crowd kneeling on the steps. >Arrested for trying to deliver a Bible to Prime Minister Chamberlain, one Robert Edmund Harrison, 29, pleaded not guilty to the charge of obstructing a policeman...