Word: garnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...official guests on hand to watch President Quezon swear his oath were influential brown-skinned fellow-countrymen in white suits and straw hats. But the guests whom President Quezon was happiest to see were the white-skinned envoys of the liberating Republic: Secretary Dern, Vice President John Nance Garner, 17 U. S. Senators, 26 U. S. Representatives, 34 U. S. newspapermen, to the last of whom Manuel Quezon declared: "We will be ever grateful for the part the free press has played in the cause of independence...
CONGRATULATIONS ON A FINE SEASON STOP DONT STOPBUT STOP YALE STOP HARVARD SHOULD GARNER THE VICTORY TOMORROW MORGENTHAU THEY SAY THE HULL DERN ELI TEAM IS TOUGH STOP REGARDS...
After a sail up Puget Sound, the President Grant's distinguished junketeers were entertained at dinner at Victoria, B. C. by the Province's Premier. There the Mayor of Victoria confessed he did not know whether to call Mr. Garner "Mr. Vice President" or "Your Excellency." Chuckled Mr. Garner: "Just call me Jack...
Asked what he was going to do during the 23-day free ride which would take him to Yokohama, Kobe, Shanghai and Hongkong before reaching Manila, Vice President Garner observed: "We'll play a little draw poker, I suppose, and talk about each other. They say we may meet the Emperor of Japan. I've brought along a couple of pairs of new cotton socks so I won't be embarrassed like William Jennings Bryan. He had a hole in his sock when he took his shoes off to meet the Emperor...
Also outside the U. S. last week was the third ranking member of the Cabinet, Secretary of War George Henry Dern (see above). In a high and exclusive mood he had chosen to attend the Quezon inaugural in Manila, not as a member of Vice President Garner's democratic party aboard an ordinary merchantman but as the solitary official passenger aboard the U. S. cruiser Chester. On his own, he was having the time of his life in Tokyo...