Word: garnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Garner-"Cactus Jack" to those who must have nicknames for their politicians-was the first Vice President to come from Texas. At the time of his election, 43 of his 63 years had been spent in the pursuit of politics, for by special dispensation (known in Texas as "removal of disabilities") he ran for county attorney at the age of 20. For 29 years he had represented in Congress a strip of semidesert along the Rio Grande border...
...never had to make another campaign speech in it. So did national politicians who had watched from the inside his quiet march from a Texas greenhorn in 1903 to Speaker of the House in 1931 upon the death of his great & good Republican friend Nicholas Longworth. But Jack Garner, with his love for poker and baseball, his fondness for a good highball with good friends, his habit of going to bed every night at 9 o'clock sharp, did not fit the public concept of an able politician, much less of a great statesman...
...William Randolph Hearst came out for Garner-for-President as the best way of stopping the nomination of Al Smith. Nobody was more surprised or pleased than Democrat Garner who, up to that time, had had no close ties, personal or political, with the California publisher. Then Boss James A. Farley made a deal at Chicago with the Hearst forces, and Garner was nominated for Vice President-"just the waterboy on the team," as he later called himself. Neither Publisher Hearst nor Nominee Roosevelt understood the calibre of their man. If Publisher Hearst expected John Garner to become a supporter...
...many a man who voted for Garner for Vice President thought as Franklin Roosevelt did. Jittery journalists wrote pieces to the effect that never before was the health of a President more important. On the evening of Feb. 15, 1933, when an assassin in Miami pumped a gunful of bullets at the President-elect and succeeded in fatally wounding Mayor Cermak of Chicago,* many a voter sighed with relief that the U. S. had been spared Garner as President...
Then came the Inaugural and so far as the public was concerned John Nance Garner was just one more Alexander Throttlebottom.† He made no public speeches, seldom said anything to the Press, refused to go out socially. Once a year he clapped on his silk hat like a sombrero and dined formally with the President at the White House. Once a year he returned the President's invitation at his hotel. Outside the Senate he was seen three or four afternoons a week in his reserved box at the ball park or occasionally riding through the streets...