Word: garnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Agitation for a Garner-for-President club has been set in motion by a group of undergraduates and will culminate in a meeting tonight at 7.30 o'clock in Winthrop C-51 to discuss plans...
...club, if enough interest is shown to warrant its existence will be organized on the basis of close cooperation with similar clubs already established in other universities. These clubs will cooperate, in turn, with a nation-wide movement for Garner's election within the ranks of the Democratic party. Although the organization of the Garner-for-President club does not spring from the Harvard Democratic club, its organizers hope that the two may work together in harmony for the best interests of the Democratic party in the United States. The club members will attempt to popularize Garner within the University...
There is no Federal law against nepotism.* A Senator or Congressman may load the Government payroll with relatives as heavily as his conscience or his constituency will permit. Some family jobholders actually work; others only draw pay. Among the most industrious Capitol clerks is Mrs. John Nance Garner who gets $325 per month for ably serving her husband, the House Speaker, as secretary. Senator Robert Marion ("Young Bob") La Follette got his training for office as his late great father's secretary. In some Congressional families public service is an honest vocation. In others it is admittedly a racket...
...Newsmen had to puzzle out the House's payroll for April by themselves. They found: ¶ One hundred members with clerks of the same name, presumably wives, daughters, sons, brothers or sisters on the payroll. ¶ Six members (Ohio's Brand, Louisiana's Fernandez, Texas' Garner, Texas' Williams, Minnesota's Christgau, Kentucky's Thatcher) with two namesakes hired. ¶ Democratic Floor Leader Rainey paying his wife Ella $208.33 per month as secretary. ¶ Chairman Collier of the Ways & Means Committee paying Laura Collier $180 per month. ¶Chairman Vinson of the Naval Affairs...
...indication of how many nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles or in-laws members had been able to tuck into the payroll under other names. ¶ Tully Garner, the Speaker's son, down for $91.66 per month. A few days prior to the list's publication Son Tully, who tends his father's Texas ranch, was dropped from the nation's service...