Word: garnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus John Nance Garner & wife at the schoolhouse poll near their home election morning. They had started out an hour early by mistake, walked back home to wait, and now Mr. Garner was impatient. He had marked ballot No. 13 with scarcely a glance...
That night, as the nation hummed with the news of Franklin Roosevelt's reelection, newshawks in Texas remembered that the Vice President was also winning. Reaching for their telephones, they called the Garner home in Uvalde. "I'm sorry," answered the operator, "but they have stopped answering the telephone." In the midst of the greatest landslide since 1820, John Nance Garner slept as usual...
Died. Mack Garner, 36, one of four famed jockey brothers (others: Guy, Lambert, Wayne ["Skeets"]), rider of the 1934 Kentucky Derby winner Cavalcade; of a heart attack, after riding in four races and bringing in one winner at River Downs (formerly Coney Island) ; in Covington, Ky. In 22 years he rode more than 2,000 winners, earned $2,425,320 for the owners of his mounts...
...mess may rightfully be blamed on the deplorable lack of Electoral College spirit. In another month the electors will get togethers in some hall and cast their votes just as if it didn't matter which way they went. How can they expect Landon and Knox and Roosevelt and Garner down there on the field to give everything they've got when the Electoral College boys sit back on the bleachers and say isn't it a shame we haven't had a good team since Lincoln and Hamlin...
John Nance Garner reported no financial transactions whatever. Alfred M. Landon and William Pranklin Knox reported no receipts and all expenses taken care of by the Republican National Committee...