Word: garnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Speaker Garner who as Vice President-elect would (under the new 20th Amendment) have succeeded to the Presidency if Zangara's bullets had found their intended mark, did not hear the news until the following day, so strict is his hotel rule against being disturbed at night...
...many in the House were less willing to put President Roosevelt above the lawmaking power of Congress. Gibed Republican Leader Snell: "We'd better abolish Congress and go home." So loud grew the cries of dissent that Speaker Garner, a good retreater, decided to put his dictatorship plan over until the next session...
Meanwhile in Washington, President-elect Roosevelt's political friends in the House disclosed sensational plans for making him a fiscal dictator over the Government. Speaker Garner stood sponsor for legislation which would authorize the new President not only to abolish and consolidate all executive departments but also to control the public purse by reducing or suspending appropriations fixed by law and by cutting Federal salaries at will-all to help balance the Budget. Declared the Speaker: "I'm ready to go the limit and the limit is the Constitution...
Other Democratic leaders began like good politicians to back away from their tax plan. Speaker Garner talked of another tax plan he had up his sleeve which would not be "quite so painful" as upping the normal rates. Majority Leader Rainey pooh-poohed the idea of passing any new tax legislation at the present session while Chairman Collier of the Ways & Means Committee spoke of it as a "last resort." The Democratic position shook down to this: If President Hoover signs a beer bill, increased income taxes may not be necessary; if he vetoes it, taxpayers can blame...
...deficit at the half-year stood at $1,159,286,502. Gone is any hope of balancing this year's budget. -Speaker Garner talked of reducing single exemptions from $1,500 to $1,000 ignorant of the fact that such a cut had already been made in the 1932 Revenue...