Word: garner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate wives were miffed because only about half of their husbands were invited to the garden party at the British Embassy. Last week Sir Ronald Lindsay lunched with Vice President Garner and several Senators at the Capitol and afterward all Senators & wives were invited to the party. Credit went to Mrs. Garner, whose husband, it was rumored, threatened to send her home to Texas so he would have an excuse (inability to get into a stiff shirt without her) to give all the parties a miss. Lady Lindsay somewhat rehabilitated herself with the Washington press by calling attention...
Enclosed in each letter were two metered postcards (possible, postage: $800): "Sign one yourself-ONLY IF YOU BELIEVE IN JOHN NANCE GARNER AND HIS PROVEN RECORD and ask some friend to sign the other. . . . Just drop them into the mail; no postage stamps necessary...
...time she married Newspaperman Hal Sevier in 1906, Clara Driscoll had written two novels (The Girl of La Gloria, In the Shadow of the Alamo) and a musical comedy (Mexicana)* which the Brothers Shubert produced on Broadway. Democratic National Committeewoman Clara Driscoll Sevier gave liberally to the 1932 Roosevelt-Garner campaign fund. Husband Hal Sevier became Franklin Roosevelt's Ambassador to Chile. They were divorced last year and Clara Driscoll Sevier changed her name to Mrs. Clara Driscoll...
Clara Driscoll and E. B. Germany have one thing very much in common: they are co-chairmen of the Texas Garner-for-President Club (five rooms, nine employes in Dallas). Proceeding on Garner's friend Emil Hurja's theory that early leaders stay on top, last week Mr. Germany and Mrs. Driscoll unmistakably pushed chaparral Jack Garner into the 1940 Presidential race† on a national scale. Over their signatures the T. G. F. P. Club appealed to 40,000 ranking Democrats throughout...
...course of time runs on, it has become evident that the people of the United States have tremendous confidence in ... John N. Garner. We have, therefore, organized a general committee looking to the drafting of JOHN NANCE GARNER for PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. ... Are you willing to help us in this...