Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lame ducks" in the "lame duck" session of Congress opening this week, Vice President Curtis is by far the lamest. Congressional districts turned down 144 Representatives and 14 States rejected sitting Senators but the Vice President was crippled by the vote of the entire country. The President-reject was similarly crippled but he at least has the responsibility and power to "run the country" until March 4. With little enough to do before his rejection, a defeated Vice President is a figurehead indeed. Charles Curtis' defeat ("the first popular election I ever lost") kept intact the record that...
...Many a "lame duck" remains in the capital long after his defeat because female members of his household, enchanted with Washington society, refuse to move back to the boredom of their home community. *Nevertheless, last week the Garners moved into more pretentious quarters on the seventh floor of the Washington Hotel, facing the Treasury. Said he: "We're home lovers and we like to stay in the place where we know everybody from the bellhops to the manager...
...Congress next spring. Though the party is pledged to Repeal, it will take every ounce of the new President's leadership to get_ such a resolution through the slow-shifting Senate. Meanwhile beer as a source of revenue looked like a certainty if not in the 72nd "lame duck" session then in the 73rd's first...
...Advertisement of stocks and bonds sold in interstate commerce will carry sworn data as to promoters' bonuses, commissions, invested principal and interest of sellers. Stock exchanges will not suffer. (Only really important change in the banking system is state-wide branch banking which may be put through the "lame duck" session...
...keep auctioneers busy for six days last week. All Miss Giulia's jewelry was sold with the rest. Besides her famed four-strand pearl necklace and her 25-carat Ceylon sapphire there was a box full of diamond brooches in the shapes of cow, crescent, rooster, grasshopper, wild duck, beetle, bee, donkey, horse & cab, the U. S. flag, lizard...