Word: harrison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Passenger traffic on the Southern Railway has declined 30% in the last five years, motor travel of course being the competitive influence. But while the auto was reducing passenger income it was increasing freight income. Fairfax Harrison, Southern president, estimated that 15% of Southern's 1928 freight traffic came from the automotive industry. Since Southern's 1928 passenger revenue was $24,000,000, of which 30% would be $7,200,000; and its freight revenue was $108,000,000, of which 15% is $16,200,000, the horseless carriage on the whole did not do so badly...
...choleric, anti-U.S. weekly Britannia (TIME, Nov. 5) had failed under the extravagant editorship of Novelist Gilbert ("Swankau") Frankau and was about to lose its identity in a merger with England's popular Eve, according to statements issued by wealthy, wiry William Harrison, owner of both publications and some 25 other periodicals...
...York's Hotel Ambassador, last fortnight, nervous and be-spatted Publisher Harrison refused to discuss onetime Editor Frankau. He also refused to discuss the purpose of his visit to the U.S., beyond the usual foreigner's phrase: "I am studying America." But, in alternately low-voiced and explosive sentences, he was ready to speak of his fondness for golf; his many publications (including Tatler, Sketch, and Daily Chronicle); his 25 paper mills in England, Scotland, Germany; and his 1,500,000 acres of esparto grass in northern Africa...
Esparto is a wild grass, growing tall as the bulrush. It flourishes in the sandy parts of northern Africa. It is picked for Papermaker-Publisher Harrison by a small army of Arabs. It is expensive, for the boiling down of the pulp diminishes its bulk by 50%. With the vigor of a true Yorkshireman, Mr. Harrison last week took pains to denounce as an ass an imaginative U. S. reporter who wrote how esparto grass had to be plucked by sweating Negroes, one blade at a time...
...returned with objections for reconsideration, the bill failed to become a law." Other Presidents who have expressly or implicitly concurred in the belief that the "pocket veto" is efficacious at the end of any session of a Congress include Jackson, Tyler, Buchanan, Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding, and Coolidge. The practice was upheld in the opinions of Attorney Generals Devens and Miller...