Word: garnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press of public business last week forced President Roosevelt to cancel his engagement to open Chicago's Century of Progress Fair May 27. Neither could Vice President Garner go. Postmaster General Farley, the Administration's routine banqueteer and speechifier, took the assignment. Chicago's Mayor Kelly cheerfully declared a "Let's Go, Chicago'' week...
...after day last week Vice President Garner mounted his Senate rostrum, turtled his chin gravely down into his collar and ordered big-bodied Sergeant-at-arms Chesley W. Jurney to proclaim as follows...
...covering letter accompanied the bill. In this letter Thomas suggested that the President should adopt the program and take the power for the clubbing effect it might have in the June economic conference. When the heirs of Bryan disclosed their gain of 15 votes in three months, John Garner hastened down the avenue to tell the Squire that the inflationists soon would have the stick in their hands and the throttle pulled back. President Roosevelt had given the Thomas bill to Moley. The No. 1 Columbia Cerebrator reported back that the Thomas plan was sound. The next...
...feel that no other publisher is such a power in the land. Even adolescent Hearst-readers feel the reverberations of his career. Did he not always want to be President or make one and were not his telegrams the electric power which welded the Roosevelt- Mc-Adoo-Garner deal and put the New Deal in the White House? Controlled inflation, the policy of the hour-whose policy is it, if not his? And looking out upon the Pacific he may sometimes see the smoke of a fleet which he has always urged must be ready to fend off the Yellow...
...personal stingaree Petitioner Parker wired Vice President Garner: "Senator Long knows neither truth, honesty nor decency. His black record is nationally known. Psychiatrists have stated in my presence that he is a dangerous paranoiac. . . . The Senate should have him permanently incarcerated in Washington. . . . He is the greatest menace to American decency and civilization...