Word: garnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speaking with the sanction of the President-elect when he declared: "I'd rather have the dentist pull my back teeth than support a sales tax, but I don't see any other alternative if we're going to balance the Budget." Chimed in Speaker Garner who as Vice President-elect is supposed to know the Roosevelt mind: "If it is necessary to have a manufacturers' tax to balance the Budget, I'd have...
...Recessed three days for Christmas after Speaker Garner in the House refused to agree to the regular ten-day holiday. Many a Senator vowed to give him a cold shoulder when he becomes Vice President...
...Passed a bill to pay Mexico a $30.000 indemnity for the fatal shooting of two Mexican youths by Oklahoma deputy sheriffs last year; sent it to the Senate. ¶ Recessed for three days over Christmas after Speaker Garner failed to muster a quorum. Members failing to return after the recess were threatened with arrest by the House Sergeant-at-Arms...
...Speaker, I rise to a question of constitutional privilege." One afternoon last week Representative Louis Thomas McFadden, rambunctious Pennsylvania Republican, planted himself in the House well, squared his stocky shoulders, spoke these words. Behind him on the rostrum slouched Speaker Garner. Before him several hunched members drowsed through routine legislation. The strident McFadden voice continued: "On my own responsibility as a member of the House of Representatives, I impeach Herbert Hoover, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors and offer the following resolution. . . ." The House, shocked as if by electricity, sat bolt upright. For 20 seconds there...
Because it was revenue legislation the beer bill was given right-of-way in the House this week. Speaker Garner promised both sides ample time to debate it, ample opportunity to amend it. Its passage by the House was confidently predicted?but not by any such vote (272) as Repeal got the first clay of the session. The predominantly Dry Senate's action remained highly uncertain. And at the end of the legislative lane appeared to loom a veto by President Hoover who. unlike the Ways & Means majority, is known to feel that Beer before Repeal is Nullification...