Word: garnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protection of the white flag, but now the truce has been broken by Republicans, and the Democrats feel extremely hurt by the ingratitude. But so trapped in the web of events has the Democratic Party become that it can do nothing more than complain of betrayal. If Mr. Garner and his cohorts refuse further support to the Hoover Administration, they draw upon their heads blame for prolonging the depression. But if cooperation is continued it is perfectly plain that the Republicans are going to get all the credit for any benefit resulting from relief measures. Yet the Republicans will undoubtedly...
...unfortunately true, it has all been stated much more briefly and co-gently than in the present article. For Mr. Boyd-Carpenter, like many another of his countrymen, has seen fit to dispense with substantial proof or to recognize any merit whatsoever in his victim. Enough for him to garner particular weaknesses apparent in a number of American colleges, to amalgamate them as if characteristic of the whole, and to label the composite, "American College" Attacked with a critical eye for definite proof and clear understanding of conditions, the article collapses about its author's ears...
...their share in the proceedings . . . but, had they flouted his policies and presented no program of their own, they would have received as violent a rebuke at the hands of the American people as any with which Democracy has ever been castigated." When newsmen in Washington asked Speaker Garner what he thought of the Jahncke speech, the hard-bitten little Texas Democrat fairly snorted: "Leadership? Why, President Hoover has led us into the greatest panic the country or the world has ever known. . . . Instead of asking Congress for four new assistant secretaries, the President had better keep the ones...
...Secretary of War Hurley,- Secretary of the Treasury Mills, Secretary of the Interior Wilbur and Secretary of Agriculture Hyde as officials who would not ''play ball'' with the House on economy and reorganization. The Speaker's management of the House continued to inflate the Garner-for-President boom. Texas Democrats endorsed him to a man. His name was put into the Georgia primary by proxy. Likewise in Nebraska and California his friends sought instructed convention delegates. Well aware that presidential politics could ruin his House rule and spoil his party's legislative record, Speaker...
...advisers did not give their official sanction to a sales tax but neither did they oppose it. Their position was rather one of muted gratitude for any and all tax money, regardless of how it was raised. House adoption of the manufacturers' sales tax was clinched when Speaker Garner declared...