Word: garnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high good-humor, he held the first press conference of the week in the Oval Study next his bedroom where he told an audience of ten correspondents which tooth had given him trouble the week before: "No. 3 hold, starboard side." Informed that in Uvalde, Tex. Vice President Garner had developed a kind of "magic seed" which might make grass grow under the trees on the White House lawn, the President asked him to send for some. At week's end, he made his attitude even clearer. Leaving Congress to struggle along in Washington, he boarded a train...
...Felicitated Vice President John Nance Garner on his 69th birthday...
...Senate. Opposed by Memphis' potent Boss Edward Crump (TIME, Nov. 1), he was roundly defeated. If Finis Garrett had stayed in the House in 1928, he would almost certainly have been elected Speaker by the Democratic majority of 1931. If Finis Garrett had been Speaker, John Nance Garner would not have been boomed for the Presidency in 1932. Without the Garner boom the famed deal whereby California and Texas delegations gave their support to Franklin Roosevelt at the Chicago Convention of 1932 would have been impossible. Without the Hearst-Garner-McAdoo deal, Franklin Roosevelt might never have become President...
Capitalizing on news-accounts of John Nance Garner's criticism of his wife's new hat ("It makes you look like a flapper"-TIME, Nov. 29), Manhattan's publicity-wise Arnold Constable & Co. dispatched a representative to Mrs. Garner with a dozen matronly hats, offered them to her as a gift. Valued at $169, all size 23. the assortment included a black felt brimmed model with green, lavender and red bows, a toque with iridescent feathers and odd-angled quills, a visor brimmed type with veil in front, a bumper roller with wraith of veil...
EZEKIEL-Elvira Garner-Holt ($1.50). An unpretentious children's book about "a lil' cullered boy, an' he names Ezekiel," who lives in Sanford. Florida with "he Pappy and he Mammy an' he Sister Emancipation an' he brudder Lil' Plural an' Assafetida, de baby." Although he and his family do not live up to the glorious promise of their names, Ezekiel has enough adventures in 39 pages to make the book one of the unexpected best sellers of the season...