CRITIC’S OUTBURST
C.LO. Leader On VicePresident WASHINGTON, July 27. The Vice-President, Mr. J. N. Garner, is a “Labour-baiting, poker-playing, whisky-drinking, evil old man.” With this statement, uttered at a Congressional hearing where Mr. J. L. Lewis charged the Vice-President with opposing Labour, the leader of the Committee for Industrial Organization launched a serio-comic political incident.
Mr. Garner, when asked to comment on the statement, only chuckled. The Texas delegation in Congress, however, immediately held a caucus and issued a pronouncement expressing their “deep resentment and indignation over this unwarranted and unjustified attack on his (Mr. Garner’s) private and public life.”
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 258, 29 July 1939, Page 11
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