Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...initiative Congress passed two prime measures: 1) a Constitutional amendment doing away with the "lame duck" session of Congress, already ratified by twelve States; 2) a bill severely limiting the use of injunctions in labor disputes...
...Senate had just passed the Borah resolution to investigate the St. Lawrence treaty agreement. What did Governor Roosevelt think of that? Governor Roosevelt showed what he thought by waving his white duck hat and grinning...
...voted for: War (1917), the 18th Amendment (1917), restrictive immigration (1924), Soldier Bonus (1924), tax reduction (1924-27), tax increase (1932). Federal Farm Board (1929). the "Lame Duck" Amendment to the Constitution (1932), bonus loans over veto...
...Garner's tax speech was the first use of his parliamentary privilege to join in House debate. As Speaker (1925-31) Nicholas Longworth descended the rostrum to address the House from the floor five times on such subjects as the Soldier Bonus, a Big Navy and the "Lame Duck" Amendment. Frederick Huntington Gillett (1919-25) spoke five times. During the eight years of his Speakership (1911-19) Champ Clark took the floor 18 times for regular debate and 45 times when the House was in the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union. His speeches produced...
...brings his medical knowledge and experience to bear on legislative questions arising in the World War Veterans' Legislation and Pensions Committees of which he is a diligent member. He voted for: Tax Reduction (1928), Jones ("Five & Ten") Law (1929), Reapportionment (1929), Farm Board (1929), Tariff (1930), "Lame Duck" Constitutional Amendment (1932). He voted against: Farm Relief (1928), Bonus 50% Loan (1931), "Lame Duck" Constitutional Amendment (1931). He votes Dry, drinks Dry. Legislative, hobbies: Pensions for widows & orphans of War veterans; extension of the Ohio River barge system 80 mi. beyond Pittsburgh. He once proposed that veterans be treated...