Word: garner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Garner Bloc. Jack Garner's enemies are certainly right when they say he has bided his time. Time-biding is rule No. 1 in his lexicon for new Congressmen, to whom he says: "The only way to get anywhere in Congress is to stay there, and let seniority take its course." He grasped time's forelock just once, when he went to the Texas Legislature for the single purpose of carving a new Congressional District, an area about the size of Mississippi along the sparsely-populated U. S. bank of the Rio Grande south and west...
...Union. Today Texans are chairmen of the House committees on Agriculture (Marvin Jones), Elections No. 1 (West), Judiciary (Sumners), Public Buildings & Grounds (Lanham), Rivers & Harbors (Mansfield), Un-American Activities (Dies), to say nothing of Sam Rayburn being Majority Floor Leader. In the Senate, Morris Sheppard (who outranks John Garner by a half-year in length of uninterrupted Congressional tenure) heads the committees on Commerce, Military Affairs and (to the New Deal's recent embarrassment) Campaign Expenditures. Senator Tom Connally has Public Buildings & Grounds and is influential on Finance, Foreign Relations, Judiciary, Privileges & Elections...
This collection of key men is, however, only one squad in the following with which John Garner has equipped himself in the Congress. Since Speaker "Uncle Joe" Cannon (1837-1927), who finally met in Jack Garner his match at poker, no man, not even the late convivial Nick Longworth, enjoyed such influence among members on both sides of the aisle in both Houses as this stubby, stubborn, pink & white billiken with the beak of an owl, eyebrows like cupid's-wings, tongue of a cowhand. He takes Capitol freshmen aside and instructs them philosophically. "Now, Scott," he said...
...eminent political statistician, Emil Hurja, observes that early leaders of popular polls (as now taken) invariably hold their leads and win in the end.-"Cactus Jack" Garner leads current polls for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1940 and Mr. Hurja does not mind saying that the forces now putting Mr. Garner ahead will keep him there through the 1940 Democratic convention. Political events, says Mr. Hurja, nowadays follow the drift of such polls rather than the drift of cigar smoke in hotel rooms. To answer yes-butters who say, "But if Mr. Roosevelt decides to run again . . .?" Mr. Hurja...
Since he undertook to lead a Congress which Franklin Roosevelt left to stew in its own juice, John Garner has taken to rambling out of his room in the Senate office building to call on Senators young & old, to having likely new House men brought in to his "school of education" by mutual friends. He does not dazzle them with brilliance. He is more apt to invite them to join him in "striking a blow for liberty" (taking a snort of Mount Vernon rye). He has no whip to crack. He does not drive. He hardly leads. But the Garner...