Word: garner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Here is an idea suggested by Vice President Garner's agreement with the President not to make any speeches during his term of office...
...John Nance Garner's Presidential boom was advanced last week by friends who made much of a letter he wrote his partners in the cheap-house business at Uvalde, Tex. Emphasized excerpt: "I suggest that you consider the amount of indebtedness you are accumulating. . . . 'It is not wise to bite off too much in the beginning...
Democrat John Nance Garner, Republican Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. ignored or declined invitations to sponsor her appearance. So did Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, presumably because he thinks Justices should shun partisan controversy. But Chief Justice & Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes accepted with pleasure, as did Associate Justice Hugo ("Klan") Black. For all who did not, New Dealer Ickes as Secretary of the Interior made things doubly uncomfortable by proffering the Emancipator for a backdrop...
...bearlike, bluff, Arch McDonald attracted a huge following during four years as "Ambassador of Sports" at Washington's WJSV. Rabid fan John Nance Garner called him "the World's Greatest Baseball Announcer." Thousands cheered him when he once dared obscene and unidentified telephoners to meet him somewhere and fight like men.* When he broke his ankle last summer and broadcast from a hospital bed, small boys sneaked past guards, climbed through transoms, even hid in ambulances to visit Arch. Those who couldn't get in shouted questions at his window, and Arch shouted answers back...
Fred Brown's appointment was promptly confirmed by his old Senate colleagues. Friends of the new Comptroller, a loyal New Dealer despite his long ballpark friendship with John Nance Garner, thought he would earnestly try to compose the General Accounting Office's present squabbles with the Treasury, TVA, and other Government agencies. But if a Republican administration comes into office in the next ten years, Fred Brown may become a watchdog in earnest...