Word: garnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fire. With the House politically set against all serious economy, its leaders feared that the tattered omnibus bill would, in the end, produce savings of only $50,000,000, far short of the amount required to balance the Budget even with a realistic tax bill. Greatly provoked was Speaker Garner at the Democratic runaway from the recommendations of his economy committee. He vowed that roll call votes would later be taken on all important changes "to put the members' feet to the fire in the matter of economy...
John Nance Garner 0 Albert Cabell Ritchie...
...Even to its own citizens the Government would be financially suspect. This would become evident in a fall in the market value of all Government bonds. Other bonds, already at low prices, would fall even further. Then would come the wholesale bank failures and general panic of which Speaker Garner warned. For Credit, mainspring of modern business, would have crumpled...
Secretary of the Treasury Mills disagreed with these figures. He thought the House bill would produce only $997,400,000 in new revenue and estimated Budget economies at only $125,000,000. If he was right, the Budget would still be off balance by some $88,100,000. Speaker Garner raised the cry of "partisan politics" against his good friend Secretary Mills, accused him of "juggling" figures to suit his own economic prejudices. But most of Washington knew that the dispute was largely academic because estimating revenue at long range is largely guessing in the dark, with the chief factors...
...Particularly happy'' was Governor Roosevelt fortnight ago to win the preference vote of Georgia, thereby adding the State's 28 convention votes to his 63 already pledged.* In what he calls his "other state" the New York executive beat a proxy candidate for Speaker Garner better than 7-to-1. Warm Springs where he goes several times a year to bathe his crippled legs gave Candidate Roosevelt all but one of its 219 votes. The voters of Roswell in Cobb County, whence came Martha Bullock, mother of the late great Theodore Roosevelt, gave every one of their ballots...