Word: garnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wearing a white and blue dimity gown modeled in the fashion of 1870 and copied from one of her mother's photographs. 41, President Hoover busied himself with his anti-hoarding campaign (see below). ¶ Entertained at a White House dinner was Speaker of the House John Nance Garner uncomfortable in a new dress suit, together with Henry Ford, Walter P. Chrysler, William Wallace Atterbury, Melvin Alvah Traylor, James Watson Gerard, sundry other tycoons and their ladies. ¶ President Hoover asked Congress to appropriate an additional $1,450,000 with which the Department of Agriculture might fight grasshoppers...
...friendly relations with Arkansas' Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson who pressed his appointment. Mr. Couch is a director of Chase National Bank of New York and of Electric Power & Light Co. of New York. Friendly Arkansans hail him as their State's Cecil Rhodes. Speaker John Nance Garner of Texas also got his man on the R. F. C. directorate when President Hoover appointed Jesse Holman Jones, Houston banker, builder (Rice Hotel) & publisher (Chronicle}. As the finance director of the Democratic National Committee, Mr. Jones lured the 1928 party convention to his city with a blank check. Good...
...full field it was, with a great assortment of men ranging from those who were earnestly pressing on to those who sat back passively in the hope Presidential lightning would strike them. The Democratic field: Maryland's Albert Cabell Ritchie, Oklahoma's William Henry Murray, Texas' John Nance Garner, Ohio's Newton Diehl Baker, New York's Owen D. Young, Arkansas' Joseph Taylor Robinson, Tennessee's Cordell Hull, Illinois' Melvin Alvah Traylor?and, of course, New York's Alfred Emanuel Smith...
...Samuel Williston '82, Dano Professor of Law; Calvert Magruder, professor of Law; E. M. Morgan '02. Bussey Professor of Law; E. M. Dodd '10, professor of Law; E. R. James, professor of Law; W. A. Seavey '01, professor of Law; A. W. Scott, Story Professor of Law; G. N. Garner '11, professor of Law; and W. D. Leach, Jr. '21, professor...
...Adopted (63-10-7) for the sixth time a resolution by Nebraska's Norris to amend the Constitution for the elimination of the short ("lame duck") session of Congress; sent it to the House where Speaker Garner promised it favorable consideration...