Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...want to be heard." Twenty feet below on the floor the House was taking a teller vote on a minor appropriation amendment. At the gallery gunner's outcry the hundred members present were seized with honest panic. Most of them sprinted for the safety of the cloakrooms. Others ducked under tables. A few sat petrified in their seats. One Representative who did not lose his head was Minnesota's "lame duck" Melvin Joseph Maas, an overseas aviator with the Marine Corps during the War. Stocky & brave, Representative Maas marched across the floor to a spot directly under...
Guffawed when Democratic Leader Robinson referred to the "death" of Republican Leader Watson instead of Colorado's Waterman. Said Lame Duck Watson: "I'm just politically dead...
...Later the House will vote on a beer bill and perhaps knock together a special revenue measure to balance the Budget. If it gets that much done in the next two and one-half months it will pat itself on the back and think it has established a "lame duck" record...
...requiring all Congressional districts to be "contiguous, compact and of approximately equal population." The absence of such a provision in the present law compelled the Supreme Court last October to sustain gerrymandering in Mississippi's redistricting. ¶ Heard its first farewell speech from Georgia's "Lame Duck" Lankford. ¶ Passed District of Columbia bills to close local barber shops one day per week and to allow Capitol attaches Congressional automobile tags. ¶ Received from the Appropriations Committee the first supply bill-Treasury & Post Office. Its total, $961,416,597, had been cut $32,912,304 under President Hoover...
...bottom up through the Ways & Means. During his two-year absence "Jack" Garner, who entered the House with him in 1903, jumped ahead. Well may Representative Rainey wonder what his political destiny might have been, had he not lost one term out of 16. Even today only one "lame duck" (Mississippi's Collier) precedes him on the Committee over which he helped to> preside at last week's beer hearings. In all the 73rd Congress only one member of either House or Senate-North Carolina's tall, sallow-faced Pou. chairman of the Rules Committee-will have...