Word: garnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never happened before. The correspondents might pardonably have been excused for failing to recognize conduct so unnatural on the part of the President. It was, in fact, not his native conduct. The true author of his silence was little red-faced John Nance Garner of Texas. When the astute Vice President returned from Uvalde he found the New Deal's many mouthpieces virtually sticking their tongues out at one another in a veritable babble of contradictions. He spoke up in Cabinet meeting to say that he thought a dose of silence would be good for all concerned...
...raised on a Tennessee farm and has spent 26 years as a Democratic wheelhorse in the House, did not fill those specifications. Texas' Representative Sam Rayburn became, in effect, the New Deal's candidate. Louis Howe was anxious to see him get the job and Vice President Garner sent a letter to the Texas delegation in the House urging them to vote for their colleague and his political protege. In addition two other serious contenders for the Speakership were still in the running: loud, rambunctious John Elliott Rankin of Tupelo, Miss., and William B. Bankhead (father of Tallulah...
Such was the Washington situation fortnight ago when Mr. Roosevelt returned from Warm Springs and Mr. Garner returned from Uvalde, with a new tan sombrero, terming himself "just a country boy trying to get along with the city slickers." Promptly they put their heads together, decided it was politically too dangerous to try to spike Mr. Byrns's ambitions. So Mr. Garner emerged from the White House and slyly told reporters in answer to questions...
...words signaled a free track ahead for the Speakership race. Boss Joseph F (for nothing) Guffey of Pennsylvania presently turned up in Washington and called on Vice President Garner for the unconventional purpose of presenting his own credentials as Senator-elect from Pennsylvania. But Mr. Guffey did not go to Washington alone. He took with him his political manager, David L. Lawrence, and the whole House delegation of 23 Democrats elected from Pennsylvania last month...
...largely the result of this fault that so many of his sonnets strike no note of response in the reader. It is sincerely to be hoped that Mr. Agee's future efforts will turn rather toward a development of the fine imagination and careful verse of "Ann Garner" than to this individualistic mania which threatens to injure this latest of America's "promising" poets...