Word: garner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...absence of Mrs. Roosevelt (who last week attended San Francisco's World's Fair) the land's No. 2 Lady, Mrs. John Nance Garner, had the experience of presiding over a White House tea party...
...newspapers. One who did so last week was the President's lusty second son, Elliott, who runs his second wife's radio station (KFJZ) at Fort Worth, and knows which side of his bread bears Texas butter. In one of his semiweekly personal broadcasts he said: "John Garner is in the driver's seat right now, well in the lead as a likely Democratic candidate for the Presidency...
...unemployed folks out here, Elliott, who've got to be taken care of, and we don't see how Garner's economy program is going to mean food and jobs for them. If 'Cactus Jack' and all his bellowing calves in Congress would really get behind the old man and quit sniping at him and upsetting the country and business, we'd be able to put these jobless to work all the sooner...
Ettie Rheiner Garner, 61-year-old wife and secretary to the Vice President of the U. S.. posed in her office on her adjustable exercise machine (see cut}. It is adjustable so that Mrs. Garner can also get a work-out sitting down, or lying on her back. "I am handicapped," explained she, "because I can't take off my dress in my office. I just pin up my skirt and shut the door...
First stop was Washington. There the 520 student junketeers had tea with Eleanor Roosevelt, kissed (without relish) Congressmen and Vice President Garner, and danced with the newspaper correspondents' corps, the diplomatic corps and students of three local universities. Next day they hurried on to Annapolis to dance with the midshipmen, then, after their train had been delayed 17 minutes by one tardy dancer, pushed on to West Point. They liked West Point better than Annapolis because it provided two cadets for each girl...