Word: garners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Nance ("Cactus Jack") Garner, back on his feet ("I had the gout for two weeks after Harry Truman was here"), and spry on his 80th birthday, issued a prickly statement to persistent newsmen for the occasion: "I'm in favor of every man reaching his own conclusions and his own confusions . . . There have been too many statements by too many people...
Early on Sunday morning, he stopped at the Uvalde home of aging (79), still chipper John Nance Garner. "Cactus Jack" had spread a super-Texas breakfast: orange juice, mourning dove, white-winged dove,* chicken, rice and gravy, ham, bacon, scrambled eggs, biscuits, honey, preserves, pecans, coffee. Harry Truman ate some of everything in sight, said it was the biggest breakfast he had had in 40 years. Nothing was said of politics, but everybody got the idea: Jack Garner, that most conservative Southerner, was for Harry Truman...
Died. Mariette Rheiner ("Ettie") Garner, 79, capable wife of the 32nd Vice President, his "righthand man" for half a century; of a neurological ailment; in Uvalde, Tex. Ettie married Judge John Nance Garner in 1895, served as his private secretary when he was elected to the House in 1902, as second lady of the land (1933-1940) shunned Washington's social life...
Banks. The World Bank, turning from lender to broker, got ten U.S. banks to lend four Dutch shipping firms $12,000,000 to buy cargo-passenger vessels. Henceforth, said Vice President Robert L. Garner, the World Bank will try to steer foreign loans to private institutions...
...their necks way out in predicting successes for their favorites. "Dowey is a cinch by the fourth ballot," according to John L. Casey 3L, his local campaign manager. Casey predicted that the Dewey bandwagon would get rolling by the second roll-call, and that the Nw York Governor would garner the nomination victory "with little trouble...