Word: garnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Speaker Garner: Is a second demanded? Georgia's Dry Tarver: I demand a second...
What may be the last "lame duck" session of Congress in U. S. history opened a three-month sitting last week.* Under a bright December sun the Capitol gleamed whiter than usual after a bath by the local fire department. When Speaker Garner called the 72nd House to order to take up the nation's business, on its rolls were still 144 members whom the People had rejected as law-makers on Nov. 8. Lame ducks in the Senate numbered 14. Prime job of the session: enactment of eleven bills appropriating more than four billion dollars for next year...
...weeks the Red march on Congress had been in the making. Herbert Benjamin, its Washington advance agent, had vainly sought parade permits from Vice President Curtis and Speaker Garner. His attempts to rent local quarters for his followers had been equally unsuccessful. But his failures did not halt the marchers. From Boston, Providence, New York, Albany, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis. New Orleans, Birmingham and Philadelphia streamed a black-&-White horde of Reds, traveling in rented trucks and wheezy old cars. Their demand: $50 for every jobless citizen. One city cold-shouldered the motorcades along to the next. At Wilmington...
...Repeal. Fortnight ago Speaker Garner announced that he would put to an immediate House vote a resolution to repeal the 18th Amendment, with ratification by State conventions. As both parties had declared Wet, he favored quick disposal of the question. About the Capitol for a week there was much scurrying and nose-counting. Would the resolution muster the necessary two-thirds vote? Majority Leader Rainey thought so. Others were less certain. Die-hard Drys fumed at the State convention method of ratification, succeeded in inducing the Judiciary Committee to reject (13-to-6) the Garner resolution...
Pecans are grown in all but eleven States. They are kin to the hickory nut, whose popularity they supplanted. Vice President-elect John Nance Garner has six acres of pecan trees on his Texas ranch, and fortnight ago his Stuart pecans won first place at the West Texas Pecan Fair at Rising Star. His crop this year came to 1,000 lbs. Pound for pound, pecan meat is twice as nutritive as pork chops, five times as nutritive as veal. No other nut is so fatty. Southern cooks use pecans in their famed crisp pralines...