Word: garnering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What is a secret? Representative John Nance Garner, Democrat, of Texas, declared that nothing was a secret which was printed in The New York Times, the Chicago Daily Tribune and The New York Commercial. Therefore he objected that the text of Secretary Mellon's bill for tax reduction was kept "secret" by the Ways and Means Committee...
...given out by the Treasury Department. The text of the bill itself was kept confidential by vote of the Committee in accordance with precedent for revenue bills. Nevertheless, there were leaks. Sections of the bill began to appear verbatim in the above papers, which moved Mr. Garner to say: "I think it is an outrage. I do not hesitate to say it is indefensible when Mr. Mellon has given out the practical contents of the bill and three newspapers have published parts of it, for the committee to hold it up. It is unfair to the rest of the press...
...reduction for the millionaires!" is the rallying cry of the Republican insurgents and most Democrats. This argument is presented by Representative Garner, of Texas, Democratic whip and member of the Ways and Means Committee, in the following words...
...other hand, our opponents have lost none of their fighting force and have a number of additions of great strength. Garrett, and Garner, and Pou, and Crisp, and Rayburn will be joined by Rainey, and Hull, and Cannon [Clarence Cannon of Missouri], whose profound knowledge of parliamentary law is familiar to us all. We, as a party, will have our work cut out for us if we are to emerge from the parliamentary battles of the next session with credit to ourselves and to our party, and it cannot be done without co-operation and teamwork...
...inscribed with the forgotten author's signature, most of them contain inserted notes or pencilled dedications in this manner: "To Professor Longfellow, with the poet's humble respects;" or: "Trusting that Dr. Lowell will find leisure to read these modest gleanings from the pen of--." The books are the garner of Longfellow's and Lowell's visits to England, where they became the patrons of aspiring writers, and were showered with literary products of greater and less merit. Many of these "minor Victorians" have been forgotten; a few are well remembered; but all the books are interesting and profitable...