Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Designated Maine's Hale as chairman of the Appropriations Committee vice Washington's Jones, deceased, and California's "Lame Duck" Shortridge as chairman of Naval Affairs, vice Senator Hale...
Democratic Morrow. Born (1878) and bred in Tennessee where he still lives at Tullahoma, Mr. Davis comes from a long line of Democrats. One of his five brothers, Ewin, is now the "lame duck" chairman of the House Merchant Marina, Radio & Fisheries committee. In 1902 Norman Davis went to Cuba, where in 15 years he made his fortune in banking, construction, dredging. His Havana partner was Tillinghast I'Hommedieu Huston, onetime Colonel in the Army Engineers, onetime part-owner of the New York Yankees...
What may be the last "lame duck" session of Congress in U. S. history opened a three-month sitting last week.* Under a bright December sun the Capitol gleamed whiter than usual after a bath by the local fire department. When Speaker Garner called the 72nd House to order to take up the nation's business, on its rolls were still 144 members whom the People had rejected as law-makers on Nov. 8. Lame ducks in the Senate numbered 14. Prime job of the session: enactment of eleven bills appropriating more than four billion dollars for next year...
...those barren islands in the North Atlantic, which it has been asserted, have no value except in the unlikely event of war. Let the government turn the island over to Mrs. Peabody, and guarantee to keep it barren. There Mrs. Peabody, and for good measure the lame duck dries in Congress, can maintain unhampered their ideal regime, the Sahara of the Boozart...
...From a duck hunt General Ashburn returned to New Orleans last week in fighting trim. He denounced Banker Lisman as an "unqualified liar," called him a "paid railroad lobbyist" declared that Mr. Lisman had had to apologize for similar statements last summer just when he (Ashburn) was about to sue for defamation of character. According to General Ashburn, all testimony in Chicago was part of a "railroad plot" to discredit his barge line. In the barge line's latest (1931) annual balance sheet, General Ashburn reports a net operating income of $298,756 and a deduction from cash revenues...