Word: garnering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Good English is business English, according to Dean Garner of the Northeastern business school in Chicago. And business English is short and "Kicky". At last the lie is passed to Shakespeare, Browne, and Johnson, and all the other foreigners who talked over the businessman's head: they didn't write good English. The son of the Rotarian may henceforth plead scot-free of Milton: he didn't write good English...
...decrease in world wheat supplies means that the surplus which drugged the international market last year, following a remarkably large crop, will be largely non-existent this year. Prices will be higher and the U. S. farmer will garner the greater part of the advantage because his production is not off as much in proportion as the general world production...
...discussion were the League of Nations and the World 'Court. Dr. Visscher held a strong brief for the League. "It is," he said, "the centre and rallying point of all peaceful forces." Over the question of the Court the leaders of the Conference disagreed. Dr. J. W. Garner asserted that without such a Court and a definite codification, international law was meaningless. Dr. Quincy Wright had a different opinion. "The time is not ripe," he said, "for a codification of international law." Dr. Kraus supported Dr. Wright. There was, however, no debate. Members of the Institute do not argue...
...same way with Congress. It removes its black felt political hat, scratches its earnest political head and wonders: "Shall we have Mellon's tax reduction? Shall we have Garner's? Shall we have a bonus?" The sanity of the proceeding depends entirely on how much surplus revenue there is to play with. And the amount of surplus revenue depends on an estimate. Mr. Mellon of the Treasury Department offered the estimate. According to his estimate, Congress may sanely ask: "Shall we have one?or rather, shall we have the Mellon bill?" To speak of the Garner bill...
Representative Garner, senior Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee, ejaculated: "I have never questioned a Treasury estimate before, but in view of the $1,000,000,000 mistake*, while the previous bonus was under consideration, in addition to the errors which have crept into recent estimates, I can place no further confidence in Treasury information. This is a form of immorality which, unfortunately, cannot be punished unless the man happens to be under oath...