Word: garner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Garner's view of Frank Murphy's handling of 193 fs motor strikes is that the President of the U. S., not the Governor of Michigan, was at fault-in not early and firmly condemning sit-downs. Frank Murphy's steadfast point is that the use of force would certainly have caused heavy bloodshed. He was there, he knew the ugly temper of the men, and Captain Frank Murphy, who saw two years of the War with the infantry and is by nature gentle as a girl, would not shed blood...
...presession maneuverings, none was so important as those that went on in the office of the Senate's president, John Nance ("Cactus Jack") Garner. As Vice President of the U. S., Mr. Garner regularly attends Cabinet meetings by special invitation of President Roosevelt. He attended a meeting last week and, though the walls of the Cabinet room are thoroughly soundproof, newsgatherers soon learned that there had been hot discussion, that Cactus Jack had taken an adamant position for economy...
...John Garner, who served 15 terms, 30 years in the House before he was elected Vice President, is Congress-hearted and Congress-minded. The inroads of executive power upon the powers of Congress have irked him sorely. He has fast friends and respectful admirers in both Houses. Since the Republican swing last fall, which weakened the Democratic party in local affairs* and made the Administration's majorities in Congress vulnerable to future coalitions of conservative Democrats and Republicans, John Garner is anxious not to have orders from the White House split the Democratic majorities in Congress. To avoid this...
...power, Capitol Hill last week beheld an unusual spectacle. Soon after the hot Cabinet session, two Cabinet members called on the Senate's president in one day, hat in hand. One was Secretary Wallace of Agriculture, of whose acreage restrictions and proposed revival of processing taxes Mr. Garner disapproves. The other was Harry Hopkins, whose WPA performance will be mercilessly reviewed before the Senate confirms him as Secretary of Commerce...
...Jack Garner was reported perfectly willing to see Harry Hopkins confirmed, but determined to see WPA's next appropriations chopped far down in the interest of economy, and to see Relief removed from politics. In this determination he was joined by Senators Byrnes and Adams, in charge of Relief appropriation bills, and by Representative Woodrum of Virginia, chairman of the House subcommittee on Relief...