National Affairs: Garner Unmuzzled

It is an open secret that Speaker Garner has been kept muzzled by his Democratic managers for discretion's sake. Told off to chaperon him was able, tactful Charles Hand, longtime secretary to indiscreet James John ("Jimmy") Walker. Unlike Vice President Curtis, the Democratic Nominee has not been allowed to stump the small time political circuits. While the Speaker was silent his rule of the House was built up by G. O. Partisans into a major campaign issue. Again & again President Hoover pointed to it with shuddering alarm as the kind of thing...

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