Word: garnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House, through its Speaker, raged and cursed to have its own way. Meanwhile the destitute of the nation trembled in fear lest they in their plight get nothing from a quarrelsome capital. Early this month the House passed (215-to-182) an omnibus relief bill backed by Speaker Garner. Using this bill as a parliamentary frame, the Senate struck out all the House provisions and substituted a measure of its own devised by Senator Robert Ferdinand Wagner, New York Democrat. Last week the Senate by an overwhelming but unrecorded vote passed the Wagner bill. As they went to conference...
...opened a stinging fire on the candidacy of the New York Governor. This party strife a hundred newsmen, ablest of their profession, were on hand to megaphone to the country. On the front page of his nationwide press Democrat William Randolph Hearst, having plumped for the candidacy of Speaker Garner and found it hopeless, exhorted Democrats to be truly democratic and drop the old two-thirds rule required for nomination. His press was not above fabricating reports of a Wall Street meeting of "160 prospective angels for this year's Democratic presidential campaign" to "stop Roosevelt." Delegates arriving in Chicago...
...night before, Mr. Snell had sent word around to the delegations that when he uttered the name of Hoover there must be no repetition of yesterday's disgraceful lack of enthusiasm. His address, which he had shown to his House adversary, Speaker Garner, began by pitilessly flaying the Democratic opposition...
Next to Editrix Eleanor Patterson of the Washington Herald sat Colyumist Arthur Brisbane pecking away, eyes down cast, mouth drooping, at a noiseless type writer. Dedicated with the rest of the Hearst organization to the Presidential candidacy of Democrat John Nance Garner, he had little of interest to say about the Convention, but he, too, considered Reporter Rogers good copy. "It's a mistake about Will Rogers being so rich," wrote he. "John D. Rockefeller Jr., recently in Chicago, is much richer than Mr. Rogers, who if you asked him 'Where is your next million coming from,' would have...
...Last week Speaker Garner was ordered to bed with influenza...