Word: garnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...record is clear. Plain enough to be read by any voter who takes the trouble to keep in touch with things governmental. Garner is pretty consistent and he doesn't pussyfoot. He doesn't pussyfoot on the League of Nations. He doesn't pussyfoot on the war debts. He doesn't pussyfoot on taxation, on which his views are those of the great mass of the common people. He doesn't pussyfoot on anything...
...have to explain or excuse the stand of John N. Garner on any public question. His record is written on the public scrolls for all to read and he does not ask to be allowed to change a line of it. On it, he is aparently quite willing to stand or fall. It's his record and he appears to believe that Mr. John J. Voter has a right to judge him on it, without being cajoled into thinking it's something that...
Moreover, to his supporters at least, Garner represents the true spirit of the Democratic Party which is none too often evidenced in Presidential candidates. They insist he would be a far more popular rallying point than a number of others whose contact over long years with big business has dulled the edge of their crusading blade...
...Speaker Garner were actively directing an organization working nationally in his behalf, he would probably do a workmanlike job of it, for he has a direct way of going at problems that makes for speed, dispatch, and thoroughness. He is not doing so. He is contented where he is, although needless to say, he will be a receptive dark horse. It is not likely, however, on the strength of his record, that he will make concessions to win the nomination...
...convention can do worse than nominate John N. Garner, 63 years old of Uvalde, Texas. The Leaders in 1928 Following is a list of the four men who received the greatest number of votes in each party in the Crimson's presidential primary straw vote four years ago. Republicans Herbert Hoover 1841 Charles G. Dawes 230 Frank O. Lowden 183 Charles Curtis 52 Democrats Alfred E. Smith 1380 James A. Reed 363 Albert C. Ritchie 274 Thomas J. Walsh...