Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Garner & friends do intend to block the President so far as possible on public spending, to check him if he reverses himself on recovery and business appeasement (see p. 11). Because of this John Garner has become to arch New Dealers a symbol of sabotage. They consider him a prairie politician whose archaic notions, plus popular veneration for long public service, accidentally make him the leader of reaction against six years of enlightened reform...
...together by intangible ties of friendship for and trust in the old man. That such a bloc, so guided, can get results was shown last week: the President abandoned his plan, opposed by Garner, Harrison & Co., to increase the limit of the public debt to $50,000,000,000 (see...
Dodging the Lightning? John Garner has no great mind. He serves no great cause. His fundamental difference with Franklin Roosevelt is in the matter of property rights. "I had rather see my party wrecked," he says, "than to see my country ruined." Garner has appreciated property ever since he ran away from a home which had little, became a lawyer, married an heiress (Ettie Rheiner, his secretary ever since). Demons to him, as a Texas millionaire, are the multimillionaires of Wall Street. He is a Uvalde, Tex. banker tried & true (with mortgages on half the town) and therefore suspicious...
...declared an hour later that he did not know its contents. Fanny Perkins and Messrs. Woll, Bates & Rickert, hurriedly scanning it, did not hide their feeling that John Lewis had pulled a fast one on them and on Franklin Roosevelt. When they emerged a reporter queried Mr. Lewis: "I see you've taken care of Bill Green. How about yourself...
...dues at any one time. To figures like these, and to troubles like S. T. F. U.'s, A. F. of L. points as evidence that C. I. 0. should grow up and heal its sores before it tries to make peace on its own terms (see...