Word: garner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Enthroned above all were the heads of the two Houses, President John Nance Garner of the Senate (looking more than usually owlish) and Speaker William Bankhead. Below them were ranged President Roosevelt, Senate Majority Leader Barkley, House Majority Leader Rayburn, and a tireless Representative from Manhattan for whom the sesquicentennial of the U. S. has been a three-year field day, Director Sol Bloom of the Joint Committee on Arrangements...
John Nance Garner* (leaning over the dais toward Franklin Roosevelt and speaking in tones which the microphones picked up) : "Don't you want to get out of here...
...honest showdown, not only Vice President Garner and influential Senators like South Carolina's Byrnes would be found at Pat Harrison's side, but perhaps even loyal Chairman Bob Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee. At week's end Bob Doughton joined Pat Harrison in a joint letter to Mr. Morgenthau which could be construed either as a goodwill gesture or as another, specific challenge. In tones of warmest welcome they invited the Secretary of the Treasury to make good, after reviewing the income tax returns that will come in March 15, on his promise...
...Coach Hal Ulen is likely to enter a weak medley team, Art Bosworth may be saved for the 50, swimming it with Curwen against Hank Van Oss. Curwen, Powers, Lonnie Stowell, or Harley Stowell are slated to compete in the century against Parke and Van Oss. Ulen hopes to garner a second and third in the backstroke, a second in the breastroke, and will be counting on a first and second in the quarter with Curwen, Powers, or Cutler against Parke and Shef Halsey...
Profound distrust of Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy inspired Mr. Garner, who thinks that the less Democrats say about it, the better for him or any other Democratic candidate for President in 1940. Profound conviction that the Democrats need no assistance in harming themselves continued to inspire G. O. P.'s McNary. Such remaining oppositionists as Missouri's fat Bennett Clark, North Dakota's Gerald Nye, California's Hiram Johnson, constituted not a real Opposition but a malformed crew without plan or leader. Thus deprived of the full-dress performance previously advertised by Senator Clark...