Word: offing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mrs. Garner wage war at rummy, sat the Vice President and the "company," well-groomed Roy Miller (well-to-do sulfur man), R. W. Norton, ranch owner and Texas oilman, and cigar-crunching Newshawk Bascom Timmons, Washington correspondent for ten Southern papers, longtime friend of Mr. Garner.
¶ Same night in Manhattan, Ohio's Governor John William Bricker further disclaimed responsibility for Cleveland's relief crisis (TIME, Dec. 4, et seq.). It was not a yen to finish his year with a balanced budget, but Democratic manipulations in WPA and lackadaisical local administrators that were...
*Mr. Ick.es, long a fanatic on turning off unnecessary electric lights in the Interior Department, few days ago spied on scores of clerks skulking into the Department cafeteria for a quick bracer (coffee or tea), next day ordered the cafeteria closed after lunch.
In Uvalde, Texas, chunky John Nance Garner took inquisitive Cartoonist Reg Manning, of the Phoenix Arizona Republic, into the chicken yard behind his buff-brick house, pointed a stubby finger at his fowls (that come a-running when he calls), said: "If I am called, I will run."
Few days later, the Vice President decided he had been called. It was the coldest day of the year: South Texas hunters knew deer would be running by the next dawn. While Lucas Zamora, the Mexican yard man, hung precariously in the tops of the live oaks, hacking out deadwood...