Word: garner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stock, capital gains, undistributed-profits taxes, the rule disallowing profit-&-loss offsets from one year to the next). The President was described as agreeable to most of their suggestions so long as revenue is not cut. Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee, field marshal of Vice President Garner's Economy bloc (see col. 3), sat in on one session, after which he described the President's tax attitude as "fine, harmonious...
Party rebellion is no new thing in U. S. history. (The Republican Party found its left wing rebellious in the Coolidge-Hoover era.) Rebellion by the substantial leaders of a party against their leader-in-chief is rarer. And the rebellion which John Nance Garner now leads is rarer still in that it is, save in small things, almost intangible-less a rebellion than a resistance. It is nonetheless the biggest political struggle now going on in Washington...
This split between the President and his Vice President really dates from the winter of 1937 when John Garner bluntly berated Franklin Roosevelt for doing nothing about the Sit-Down strikes. Subsequently he made his famed remark (perhaps apocryphal, but truer than history): "You've got to give the cattle [Business] a chance to put some fat on their bones." That spring came the Supreme Court fight. Unwilling to help "The Boss" in that struggle, the Vice President asked and got permission to go home, go fishing. Joe Robinson was fighting Mr. Roosevelt's battle as well...
December 17, 1938 was the next big day for the Rebellion-when John Garner returned to Washington after six months in Texas. After two hours with National Chairman Jim Farley, the Vice President spent three and one-half hours with the President, trying to tell him that the November election results were not (as a famed Janizariat chart purported to prove) a collection of local overturns, but first evidence of a popular trend to the Right, toward economy. Ray Tucker, oldtime Washington correspondent who enjoys Mr. Garner's confidence more than most men, reported that in this session...
...brief return to power in 1932 when he swung the Roosevelt-Garner nomination. But Roosevelt would have none of Hearst, so Hearst turned to snarl at the "Raw Deal" and even boosted his old enemy, Al Smith, for President. Hearst staked his "reputation as a prophet" on Landon's election in 1936. When Roosevelt was reelected he tried to do a turnabout, but nobody cared any more...