Word: garnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days to the White House had abated, he went to his offices, held a conference with his newshawks. They were forbidden to smoke because of the delicate state of the President's nose. Then he took up the affairs of Congress. He called in Vice President Garner, Senate Leader Robinson, Speaker Byrns and Chairman Buchanan of the House Appropriations Committee, convinced them that he must be given $4,000,000,000, without any strings tied to it, for putting men to work. Reason: The manner of spending it had not yet been worked out. Next with Madam Secretary Perkins...
...Congress elected in November began its first regular session in January instead of in the December following. Reason: the 20th Amendment to the Constitution adopted to make the legislative branch of the Government more quickly responsive to the popular will as registered at the polls. Vice President John Nance Garner gaveled to order a Senate which contained not one lame duck. Nebraska's old weary-faced Senator George William Norris, whose 20th Amendment outlawed defeated Congress men from the Capitol, looked and saw what was indeed a lame-duckless session. He shook his head sadly and murmured: "It looks...
...Senators and old marched up before Vice President Garner to take the oath of office last week, two others looked on wistfully from the sidelines...
...continued. Comparatively trivial, they include reduced fees for jurors and witnesses in Federal courts, reduced travel allowances for postal employes, no re-enlistment bonuses for Army and Navy, enforced retirement of government employes after 30 years' service, as well as $6,000 less a year for Vice President Garner's official automobile. Nor did he want the 5% pay cut to which Federal employes are still subject restored before July...
...startling suggestion to the New Dealers but Mr. Garner gave good reasons: there was no use in stirring up the country every morning with a new batch of half-considered policies, no use in giving away the contents of the Presidential message to the incoming Congress so that every Republican could prepare a rebuttal. Orders for silence were issued. The President himself took the advice to heart...