Word: garnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...potent Navy lobby is bitterly opposing the jumping of Commander Calver over his seagoing seniors. Washington private practitioners resent Dr. Calver's free treatment to Congressional secretaries, wives, families, visitors. However, he gives non-members only emergency treatments. Regular patients are primarily Senators and Representatives (Vice President Garner is an assiduous client) and a few of their former colleagues, like onetime Vice President Charles Curtis. A stronger hindrance developed last week. John Raymond McCarl, comptroller-general, let it be known that Congress could promote Dr. Calver to anything it liked, but that he would not pay him one cent...
...Westchester Racing Association opened at flowery Belmont Park four days later.* Flecked by tragedy, Mrs. Sloane's colors continued their phenomenal gallop from prize to prize. In the 41st running of the Toboggan Handicap, Belmont's opener, Mrs. Sloane's favorite horse, Okapi, was entered. Mack Garner was up -"Colonel" Mack Garner since he had won the Kentucky Derby on Cavalcade two weeks before. Riding high on Brookmeade's luck, Garner, a comparative dodderer among jockeys, at 34 was having the best season of his 20 years in racing. Nothing could stop him, and nothing...
...squad, George Black-wood, to short while installing himself as catcher, to be better able to keep an eye on his team. Tom Bilodean and Dick Walsh were pitching for the first year men, but in spite of their skill the former mentor of the team managed to garner two hits out of his four times...
...Hall of Mirrors of Cincinnati's Netherland Plaza Hotel banquet tables gleamed, politicians and businessmen made speeches, a pastor prayed, breathless messenger boys brought in sheaves of cables and telegrams from President Roosevelt, Vice President Garner, Guglielmo Marconi, Albert Einstein, many another bigwig. Powel Crosley Jr., founder-president of Crosley Radio Corp. and owner of WLW, headed a six-hour program which 28 radio engineers broadcast from WLW's plant at Mason, 22 miles away. Thus with pomp & ceremony last week was inaugurated by far the most powerful transmitting station on earth. Until last week Warsaw...
...shrill: "They're off!" Mata Hari, Charles T. Fisher's filly, broke fast and led to the first turn, Sgt. Byrne closing swiftly. Jockey Don Meade went to the outside with Colonel Edward Riley Bradley's filly Bazaar, hot after the leaders. Little old Jockey Mack Garner, in the ruck with Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's big brown colt Cavalcade, swung to the rail to get out and ahead of the press. Mata Hari and Sgt. Byrne fell back, bunching the field and making it necessary for Garner to take Cavalcade all the way outside again...