Word: garnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relay team is distinctly favored to garner a final eight points for the Crimson in the dive, and with success in the preceding events those points should prove decisive...
...nearly three months the homely authority of John Nance ("Jack") Garner has kept the Democratic House of Representatives trotting along peacefully behind President Hoover's relief measures. Many a fighting Democrat was irked at this political docility. The President's reorganization proposal came as a signal for the House to break and run on its own. Democratic leaders got hold of advance copies of the President's message, announced, just one day before its reading in the House, their own plans for a survey of the executive Government to effect economies. When grizzled old Speaker Garner officially...
Last week Will Rogers, flying to his old home at Claremore, Okla. paused in Kansas City to talk politics. Who was his choice for the Democratic presidential nomination? Why, his good Texas friend. "Jack" Garner, Speaker of the House of Representatives. But what did he, as one famed Oklahoman, think of the prospects of that other famed Oklahoman and good Rogers friend, Governor William Henry Murray? Will Rogers grinned, ducked his head, replied: "I guess he ain't got much chance...
...soloist with the Chicago Symphony. Old Mrs. Blackstone investigated. The Negro, 27, was the son of a butler who had served her for 44 years. He had earned his Symphonic engagement through a contest conducted by the Society of American Musicians. Old Mrs. Blackstone took a box for George Garner's concert, invited her butler to sit with...
Last week Tenor George Garner was the first recitalist of the season to sell out the great Civic Opera House. Widow Blackstone is dead, her musty old mansion demolished. But thanks to her and rich Mrs. Jacob R. Custer, young Garner has had six years' study abroad. Last week, singing for the benefit of unemployed Negroes, he proved that he had made much of his opportunities. He has acquired an Oxford accent, learned better how to manage a voice that is strong, smooth, mellow...