Word: harrison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week a band of them, cursing "Scabs" started for the mill. Police intervened, turned them back to camp. Inside, a fight between two strikers brought the police. The strikers' guard opened fire on the law. Chief Aderholt, three policemen and Joseph Harrison, a union organizer, were shot in the fracas...
...obscure conference committee" that would write the Tariff Bill stirred Senator Harrison to ridicule. Explaining that Utah's Senator Reed Smoot would head that conference as chairman of the Finance Committee, Senator Harrison cried: "Is he obscure? Why, children have lisped the name of Reed Smoot, have read it a million times. . . . Senator Reed of Pennsylvania? He is not obscure. . . He made his reputation by defending Mellon. . . . And that other Republican conferee, the senior Senator from Indiana [Watson, leader of the Republican majority in the Senate]-he is not obscure. He has been in public life or trying...
Referring to the No. 6 Man as "Mr. Foghorn Adams," Senator Harrison quoted his remarks on the greatness of President Hoover and replied, with privileged Senatorial rudeness, that the President is "as negative a quantity ... as any we have ever had." Upon Secretary Adams's praise of the Cabinet of which he is a member Senator Harrison commented: "He recommends himself pretty highly, don't you think?" After his Boston speech, and the Harrison reply, Secretary Adams went to Newport, awarded diplomas at the Navy's War College, delivered the graduation speech. It was the shortest...
Chief advocates of reapportionment were: Senator Hiram Warren Johnson of California (which stands to gain six House seats); Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg of Michigan (which stands to gain four seats). Futile filibusters against reapportionment, were Senators Harrison of Mississippi (which stands to lose two seats); Black of Alabama and Swanson of Virginia (their states would lose one seat each...
University--Stroke, James. Lawrence Jr. '29; 7, W. T. Emmet '29; 6, B. J. Harrison '29; 5, M. M. Johnson '31; 4, F. A. Clark '29; 3, Lawrence Dickey '30; 2, C. McK. Norton '29; bow, Allerton Cushman '29; cox, E. L. Belisle...