Word: harrison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...West Riding Chamber of Commerce protests against ... the increase of three cents a pound on scoured wool . . . imposed on the riding breeches used by members of the West Riding Chamber of Commerce! No won der Senator Harrison weeps over the situation." TIME, July...
...Williams hobby is marine exploration. In connection with Vincent Astor, Marshall Field and Henry D. Whiton, and under the auspices of the New York Zoological Society, he financed Explorer William Beebe's expedition to the Galapagos Islands. On Galapagos there is a volcano now named Harrison Williams. In 1920 he bought the Krupp-built yacht Vanados, then Largest Yacht, rechristened it Warrior, equipped it with apparatus for testing ocean currents and temperatures. In 1926 he married Mrs. Mona Travis Strader Bush, onetime wife of James I. Bush, vice president of Equitable Trust Co. and took the Warrior...
...hold stocks and securities of any kind . . . participate in syndicates and underwritings . . . exercise such other of its charter powers as its Board of Directors may from time to time determine." The Board thus broadly trusted contained great names, One was Goldman Sachs & Co., potent financiers. Another was Harrison Williams, potent utility man. After the House of Morgan has taken its bow as First in Finance, it is questionable whether any other banking house, from the standpoint of present and recent activity, much outranks Goldman Sachs. As for Mr. Williams, if all the utilities in which he is interested should suddenly...
Williams. It has been remarked that Harrison Williams has more utility knowledge in his little finger than any other utility man has in his entire anatomy. Exaggerated is this statement, yet not unfounded. Mr. Williams' Central States Electric Corp. is a holding company which owns more than 810,000 shares of North American Co., which, through subsidiaries, furnishes light and power in Cleveland, St. Louis, San Francisco, Milwaukee, Washington, and more than 900 other U. S. communities. Central States was prominent in the formation of American Cities Power and Light and of Electric Shareholdings Corp. It has large holdings...
...local interest to them. It was said that President Hoover was going to use this information to combat the Democratic attack upon tariff flexibility, to show that many a Democrat had covertly sought to use this very machinery to get higher rates for special commodities. Mississippi's Senator Harrison shouted that neither he nor any other Democrat would thus be "bludgeoned or browbeaten" by the White House...