Word: garnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business interests, cracking a whip over Congress, and greeting small businessmen. The high point was a tableau exhibiting the discovery of the tooth which the President had extracted last autumn strung on the watch chain of a visiting Elk. The entertainment also included a glimpse of Vice President Garner shooting a cow instead of a deer...
Senator Bridges wanted to know why an investigating committee appointed by Vice President Garner would not be acceptable. Having already admitted that he thought Vice President Garner was "pure gold," Tennessee's McKellar tried a new trick: "I think some newspaper must have published a statement that the Senator from New Hampshire was a new Coolidge, and was a candidate for the Presidency, and it has gone to the Senator's head...
...whole nation pause." In the House, Michigan's Republican Clare E. Hoffman accused the President of "using his ... office as his advertising agency," and retaining a monopoly. Circulated in Washington was the story that when offered a fat contract for a series of daily broadcasts. John Nance Garner had replied: "What Jack Garner thinks isn't worth a nickel and what the Vice President thinks is not for sale...
...directly from the Secret Political Police. They announced they were putting on trial this week 21 Communists, most of whom have held official positions close to Joseph Stalin, big shots of Stalin's own party and inner clique. In equivalent U. S. terms. Defendant Rykov would be Jack Garner; Defendant Grinko-Secretary Morgenthau; Defendant Yagoda-Attorney General Cummings; Defendant Chernov- Secretary Wallace; Defendant Khodjaiev -Governor Lehman; Defendant Rakovsky-Ambassador Bullitt; Defendant Bukharin-Hugh Johnson; Defendant Levin -Dr. Alexis Carrel. "Terrific!" was Walter Duranty's adjective after studying the official charges against the 21. Correspondent Joseph Barnes remarked that...
...which John Nance Garner's five acres of Texas pecan trees produced 3,000 lb. that were sold at an average...