Word: garnering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Member of the Board. The U.S. in 1928 was at the pinnacle of Republican prosperity, but Depression-and the Democrats-were soon to come. In Washington, John Nance Garner of Texas was floor leader of the Democratic House minority. Garner and his crony, Texas Representative Sam Rayburn, were ever on the lookout for promising newcomers, and they liked the look of the freshman from Boston. McCormack voted his party's line undeviatingly. He worked diligently at the menial committee assignments that are a new Congressman's lot, and he quickly learned the procedural rules of the House...
McCormack was an expert poker player, a talent that endeared him to Jack Garner, who was later called "a poker playing, whisky-drinking, evil old man" by John L. Lewis, and whose own political career had been given a hefty bipartisan push forward by a poker-playing Republican, "Uncle Joe" Cannon. McCormack became a Garner protégé. At the beginning of McCormack's second full term, the Democrats took control of the House, and McCormack went to Speaker Garner with a timid request for an assignment to the Judiciary Committee. "Hell," growled Garner, "we want...
...Troyanovsky's first official call on Vice President John Garner was interrupted by the late Will Rogers, and the three men quickly abandoned the diplomatic amenities for a gamy, bourbon-laden discussion of the relative merits of the girls of Russia, Texas and Oklahoma...
...Hope Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* A comedy special on which Hope's guests include James Garner, Nancy Kwan, Danny Thomas, plus something over one long ton of All-America football flesh on the hoof...
Marking his 93rd birthday, Texas' John Nance Garner bit off the end of the first cigar he had smoked since his 90th, and reported himself right pleased that his 47 years of private life finally outnumbered the 46 he had spent serving the public in jobs ranging from Uvalde County judge to Speaker of the House to Vice President. ("I am the only man," he once noted, "who ever walked from the most important office to one that doesn't amount to a hill of beans.") But this year the still spiny "Cactus Jack" gaveled down the traditional...