Word: garnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Captain Alex McWilliams of the Tigers, who, at top form could take the pole vault with case, has been out of action so far this year with two game knees, and if he is off form Saturday, Dubiel and Woodberry should take the event. Dubiel and Green will garner most of the points in the broad jump...
...four events are to be contests in spot-landing, bomb-dropping, and balloon bursting, and a race of about ten miles. Wilbur L. Cummings '37 and Arthur W. Nelson '38 are favored to garner the first places in the spotlanding while George F. Fox, III '37 will probably take the ten mile race...
...strong is Lawyer Neylan's influence with Hearst that he is reputed to have persuaded the publisher in 1932 that Franklin Roosevelt was a satisfactory choice for the Democratic nomination, thus starting the break from Garner which put the President across (TIME, July 11, 1932). But many a would-be Neylan client would be surprised to learn that the real reason his business was refused was that Neylan suspected him of trying to buy Hearst influence. At every opportunity he insists that anyone who claims an ability to deliver Hearst is a faker...
...rock back on his patrician heels and remark with ominous mildness: "Some of you won't be back here next year, and the roll call is going to show who some of them are." In a similar case, a small slit would open in Speaker Garner's cherry-red face and he would say: "There's no use fooling yourselves, boys. The old man's got four aces showing already. You can't possibly call." To face such a situation the best that Speaker Byrns can muster is a heart-rending plea in a high...
Body of the House. As head of the House, Speaker Byrns is discomfited only by the fact that he is expected to rule that body. At White House conferences he is often urged by Vice President Garner to use his power, to make "the boys" toe the mark, but there is not even a rambunctious Congressman whom Speaker Byrns has it in his heart to offend by being sternly autocratic. "We'll take care of that all right," he says pacifically. "Don't worry about that...