Word: garnering
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JOHN NANCE GARNER (1940). As F.D.R. dithered over whether to run for a third term, Garner, who had opposed Roosevelt's pro-labor New Deal policies and his attempt to pack the Supreme Court, entered the presidential race himself. With the Nazi threat to Europe looming larger in the summer of 1940, Roosevelt engineered his own renomination and shunted Garner aside in favor of Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace, a former Republican but a loyal New Dealer...
...Diane L. Garner, head of documents andnon-book formats, said she would also like tobegin to circulate some goverrnment documents.Currently, special permission is required toborrow documents...
...Civil Liberties Union of Harvard yesterday began efforts to garner student support for a bill that would legalize sex between unmarried adults in the state of Massachusetts...
Steven Hildreth, a Congressional Research Service defense specialist, told the House Government Operations Committee that the Army's 1991 data would support a claim of only "one warhead kill." Under fire, Major General Jay Garner confirmed that the Army, in a revised study, was dropping its kill claims from more than 80% in Saudi Arabia to 70%, and from 50% in Israel to 40%. The Army's about-face represented a victory for M.I.T. professor Ted Postol, who triggered the inquiry by pointing out that even such nonexperts as careful cnn watchers could tell that some of the Patriots' alleged...
Beloved is a fictional account of the story of Margret Garner. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1988. It is a wonderful book--if you haven't read it you should...