Young in Washington to inform him of the decision, acknowledging the Board’s right to override it. Young asked for time to consider the initiative, but Harrison insisted on a definitive answer that day. After three hours of calls back and forth in which Young unsuccessfully tried to persuade Harrison not to force a showdown, he eventually called to say that the Board had voted to disallow the hike. Over the next three months, the directors in New York voted ten times to raise rates and each time were overridden by Washington.
