Word: garnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...open secret that Speaker Garner has been kept muzzled by his Democratic managers for discretion's sake. Told off to chaperon him was able, tactful Charles Hand, longtime secretary to indiscreet James John ("Jimmy") Walker. Unlike Vice President Curtis, the Democratic Nominee has not been allowed to stump the small time political circuits. While the Speaker was silent his rule of the House was built up by G. O. Partisans into a major campaign issue. Again & again President Hoover pointed to it with shuddering alarm as the kind of thing of which the country could expect a lot more...
...they display. He has talked as concretely as any candidate I know of and yet he has driven very few pegs into (lie ground that he will have to pull out later with his teeth. ... I shall vote cheerfully for Governor Roosevelt. That this means voting also for Mr. Garner does not add to my pleasure, but I can endure it when I think of Mr. Curtis. . . . Should Mr. Hoover be elected there is no chance now in sight that he will command a working majority in either branch of Congress. . . . The country will obtain a more coherent government from...
...Soldier Bonus (and his sour remarks about the B. E. F.). For weeks his managers have been loudly demanding that the Democratic national ticket also declare itself on the Bonus in the hope of thus eliminating it as a campaign issue. Last week in Manhattan Vice Presidential Nominee Garner announced...
Died. Sarah Jane Garner, 81, mother of John Nance Garner; of general toxic poisoning: at Detroit, Tex. Daughter of a frontiersman, born on the banks of Texas' Red River, she bore Son John Nance and six other children in a mud-chinked log cabin. She also raised five orphans of her kinfolk. Nominee Garner turned away from the deathbed before his mother died, saying he preferred to remember her as he had known...
Onions & Demagogs. Republicans quickly hopped on the Topeka speech because Governor Roosevelt had offered no specific plan of relief. He was charged with being deliberately vague and misleading. Representative Snell pointed to the fact that Democrats from Speaker Garner down had pressed the Farm Board to undertake stabilization operations. Secretary of Agriculture Hyde observed: "My admiration for Al Smith rises higher with each new Roosevelt speech. Al not only knows his onions but his demagogs as well...