Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passage of this basically important legislation made two triumphs in as many weeks, for that white-haired old Nebraskan, Senator George William Norris, who is not in the habit of winning victories. Last fortnight he got through Congress his constitutional reform abolishing the "lame duck" session of Congress.? In Senator Norris' patience there is an Oriental quality which takes no heed of time to accomplish its purpose. For a full decade he worked to enact the "lame duck" amendment. His advocacy of anti-injunction labor legislation is of almost as long
...submitted to the States by Congress, the 20th Amendment would eliminate the short ("lame duck") session of Congress which follows every biennial election. Each Congress, instead of waiting 13 months to get to work, would open Jan. 3 after the November voting. The President would be inaugurated Jan. 20 instead of March 4. Congressional sessions, within the two-year term of members, would be unlimited...
...constitutional amendments proposed by Congress have failed of State ratification.* Unless three-fourths of the State Legislatures ratify this latest proposal within seven years, it will lapse, becoming null and void. Virginia's hasty ratification started a race among the States to tack the "Lame Duck'' Amendment to the Constitution after the one providing for woman suffrage. Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey, Mississippi, Massachusetts, New York, South Carolina, Illinois, Rhode Island and Connecticut, all with legislatures sitting, jockeyed for second and third honors in performing a Federal function. Nebraska's Senator George William Norris, who has fought...
...Nephtalie Kahn never lost his temper. In all he has embroidered 26 eggs. Some of his better known pieces are the ostrich series, showing a butterfly, the salamander of Francois I. and a Gallic cock on which he employed 214 different colors of silk. His masterpiece is a duck egg called "Rouen" which bears the arms of the city. It contains 5,342 holes, some of them only 1/10 millimeter apart. It took him eight months to embroider it and before the egg was blown, drilled and embroidered Brodeur Kahn performed 256,000 different egg-operations, at the rate...
Passed a bill appropriating $50,000,000 to the Department of the Interior. ¶ Adopted (335-to-56) a Senate resolution proposing a Constitutional amendment to eliminate the "lame duck" session of Congress...