Word: ducking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Norris of Nebraska began urging a constitutional amendment to let the peoples' voice be heard afresh, in Congress and in the White House, without anachronistic delay. Thrice the Senate approved the Norris Resolution. Thrice the House remained static. Last fortnight the proposal to exterminate "lame duck" legislators and executives passed the Senate again, 67 to 6, and was sent to the House. It provided that Congress shall meet every year on January 4; that Congress shall sit every other year until through its business and at least until April 30 in the years between; that Presidential inaugurals shall...
...Keys. Key Largo, Plantation, the Matecumbes, Indian Key, Long Key, Grassy Key, Fat Deer, Key Vaca, Pigeon, Knight's, Little Duck, Big Pine Key, Cudjoe, the Saddle-bunch Keys, Big Coppitt, Boca Chica?in less than three hours the train clicks off the distance over bridges, causeways and the lowlying limestone reefs which Henry M. Flagler's engineer, the late Joseph Carroll Meredith, utilized as ties for the Oversea Extension. In places, Gulf currents 30 feet deep swing eastward under the trestles...
Debated a resolution for amending the constitution to abolish "lame duck" sessions of Congress and presidential tenures; passed it, 65-6; sent it to the House...
...Walsh of Montana) his ancient proposal to amend the Constitution so that the President of the U. S. would be inaugurated on the 15th, and Senators and Representatives take their seats on the 2nd of the January following the November of their elections. This means of abolishing the "lame duck" sessions of Congress, and of putting the people's choice promptly into the White House, has been passed by the Senate before but rejected by the House...
Glass of Virginia, small, birdlike, came in and roosted quietly. So did "the duck hunting dentist," Shipstead of Minnesota, the one-man party (Farmer Labor). His popularity might distress a less determined man, for besides him the Senate numbers just 48 Republicans (nominally) and 47 Democrats. But Senator Shipstead can tell a Progressive hawk from a Republican handsaw. He signed up with four of the only-nominal Republicans?Nye, Frazier, Elaine, LaFollette?to demand action on farm relief, Federal injunctions and Latin American policies...