Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instead of in the December following. Reason: the 20th Amendment to the Constitution adopted to make the legislative branch of the Government more quickly responsive to the popular will as registered at the polls. Vice President John Nance Garner gaveled to order a Senate which contained not one lame duck. Nebraska's old weary-faced Senator George William Norris, whose 20th Amendment outlawed defeated Congress men from the Capitol, looked and saw what was indeed a lame-duckless session. He shook his head sadly and murmured: "It looks like a picked chicken...
...cause the ladder was left behind. 9) Government auditors will try to account for Hauptmann's spending most of the $50.000 ransom. 10) Hauptmann's criminal record in Germany marks him as the type of man to execute the crime. These charges Defense Counsel Reilly will duck, denounce or deny point by point as follows...
College Rhythm (Paramount). Three years ago, a second-rate vaudeville comedian, worried by a cold audience in Birmingham, Ala., acted on an irrational inspiration. He rushed out of the wings, whined at the master of ceremonies: "Wanna buy a duck...
HOLC got off to a slow, clumsy start because President Roosevelt appointed a "lame duck" Congressman from South Carolina named William Francis Stevenson as its chairman. Democrat Stevenson apparently was more interested in giving his relatives and friends jobs in the new Government agency than he was in getting started with mortgage relief. Another cause of initial delay was that mortgage holders were reluctant to swap their liens for HOLC bonds because the bonds were guaranteed by the Government only as to interest. Therefore Congress at its last session guaranteed them as to principal as well. Chairman Stevenson was replaced...
...genius for languages and for mixing with native Africans made him useful. He took to medieval Timbuctoo like a duck to water, sturdily resisted all attempts to send him elsewhere. When threatened with a transfer to Palestine, he announced that the only Jew he had ever loved was Jesus. Biographer Seabrook plays down the spiritual Père Yakouba's spiritual labors in Timbuctoo but gives him high marks as a popular character...