Word: garnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eight-week trip to the Orient with first-class accommodations for a man and his wife costs some $2,000, is about as pleasant a vacation as there is. It is even more pleasant if someone else is paying for it. Consequently, when Vice President & Mrs. John Nance Garner, with a party of 46 Senators and Representatives, their ladies, sailed away from Seattle last week aboard the American Mail Liner President Grant as the official guests of the Philippine Commonwealth to the inauguration of President Manuel Quezon next month, everyone was as happy as a jay bird with a worm...
...dour New Yorker who leads what is left of the House Republicans, seemed positively cheerful. The fact that his mission had its serious diplomatic side, to show the Orient that the U. S. eagle still has a protective wing over the Philippines,* was not evident in irrepressibly democratic Mr. Garner's farewell remarks...
...Texas' House of Representatives at Austin, RFChairman Jesse Holman Jones, heard himself extolled for three hours as Texas' First Citizen, saw his portrait (see cut) unveiled amid cheers of one Governor, six ex-Governors, hundreds of Texas bigwigs. Telegrams were read from President Roosevelt, Vice President Garner, North Carolina's Senator Josiah W. Bailey, who hinted to Chairman Jones: "Maybe in 1940 we'll be looking to you to lead our Party to victory...
When U. S. Vice President Garner, Secretary of War Dern, Speaker of the House Byrns and a large delegation of Congressmen and Senators assemble in Manila for the Commonwealth's inaugural, they will be ushering into old, Spanish-built Malacanan Palace the first Filipino to occupy that seat of government. For brown men it will be a great triumph to see the Governor General moved out of the palace, demoted to Resident High Commissioner. Further loss to white face in the Orient was the fact that until July 4, 1946, when the Philippines become absolutely autonomous, the natives will...
Reconciled after violent protest to the requirement that he remove his shoes when he makes his projected goodwill call on Japan's Emperor Hirohito, Vice President John Nance Garner worried: "They tell me William Howard Taft and William Jennings Bryan got their socks mixed and made some kind of social error on account of their feet not matching. I'll have to be sort of careful...