Word: garnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trappings and went as usual to the White House on New Year's morning to mumble polite greetings and shake the hand of President Hoover. Present also at the diplomatic reception, which began at ii a. m., were a few Congressmen (notably absent: gruff old Speaker John Nance Garner), Army & Navy officers and two Negro cavalrymen who had won the Congressional Medal of Honor...
...repeal the section on capital gains & losses (under which many a citizen was hoping, with mostly losses to report, to cut his 1931 tax to practically nil). Quickly the Treasury (Undersecretary Mills speaking) Hayed the Democrats for planning to "soak the rich." With equal promptitude, stocky, ruddy little Speaker Garner of the House-to whom William Randolph Hearst referred last fortnight (and again last week over the radio; as the Hope of the Democratic Party-retorted: "Ogden Mills is talking through his hat! If he knows what the Demo-cratic tax program is, then I wish he'd tell...
...Hoover secretariat. From it was extracted a large, handsomely engrossed sheet of paper entitled: ''House Joint Resolution No. 147. To Authorize the Postponement of Amounts Payable to the United States from Foreign Governments during the Fiscal Year 1932." The measure was certified by John Nance Garner and Charles Curtis...
...hope of the Republican party is in Calvin Coolidge. The hope of the Democratic party is in John N. Garner. Failing these, the hope of the public is in a third party...
Seven days were required for the Democrats, after taking control of the House, to arrange their committee slate. Speaker Garner divided the plums according to the inviolate seniority rule. To the South went 27 committee chairmanships, to the North and West 20. New York and Texas could each boast of six committee chairmen...