Word: garnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House for an unannounced conference went Secretaries Hull & Morgenthau, Vice President Garner, Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee, Chairman Robert L. Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee. Reluctantly, President Roosevelt later admitted that they had touched briefly on the subject of war debts. None of the conferees would say anything, but no political wiseman doubted the advice they had given the President: whatever plan was suggested Congress would not like...
Example: 0. The President of the U. S. is (1 Coolidge, 2 Roosevelt, 3 Morgan, 4 Garner, 5 Hoover...
...held accountable for the mental attitude of his players. They must respect him. When he shows that he is unable to control his team and his team's spirit, he should be removed far more quickly than a coach who, perhaps through lack of material, has been unable to garner a sizeable amount of victories...
...white eyebrows crinkled with disgust, John Nance Garner one day last week threw down the magazine he had been reading, summoned Indiana's Sherman Minton to take the chair, stalked deliberately out of the U. S. Senate. Senator Minton settled down with a copy of Many Laughs For Many Days, by Humorist Irvin S. Cobb, tried to ignore the speech being made by Mississippi's Theodore Gilmore (''The Man") Bilbo. For 27 hours and 45 minutes before Senator Bilbo arose, the Senate floor had been occupied by Louisiana's bushy-haired little Allen J. Ellender...
With this ingratiating preamble, Franklin Delano Roosevelt this week began to discharge his constitutional duty of addressing Congress on the State of the Union. Surrounded by microphones, against a background formed by Vice President Garner and House Speaker William Bankhead (see cut), the President proceeded to cover assorted aspects of the Union's condition without concentrating on any one. His address lacked the fire of his historic denunciation of "entrenched greed" in 1936, the amiability of his complacent curtain-raiser to the Supreme Court fight a year ago. Its 4,000 words had, instead, a special quality of earnest...