Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Work Left Undone. The adjournment of Congress killed legislation to: 1) extend copyright privileges; 2) reduce immigration 90% for two years; 3) aid maternity and infancy welfare; 4) abolish the "lame duck" session of Congress (the Thomas filibuster was cited as a glaring example of the need for this reform); 5) build the Navy up to treaty limits; 6) dry up the capital; 7) put the U. S. into the World Court...
...White House, Maine's lame-duck Senator Gould conducted a party of French-Canadian hunters who presented the President with moose meat. A visitor lifted a birchbark horn to his lips and said: "Now, Mr. President, we'll show you how we call the moose." No Bull Mooser, Mr. Hoover exclaimed: "No, no, please don't! I'd just as soon look at those horns if it's all the same...
...From President Hoover "Lame Duck" Congressman Richard Nash Elliott last week got one of the best jobs in the whole Federal service when he was appointed Assistant Controller General for a 15-year term at $8,000 per year.* After 14 years' House service he was rewarded with this big bright plum chiefly because, as chair man of the Public Buildings Committee, he had scotched the old "pork barrel'' method of Federal construction and inaugurated the Government's present "lump sum" system of public building. To him, too, goes much credit for the extensive housing program to beautify the Federal...
Also "a portly looking matron from whose well upholstered bosom protrudes at frequent intervals the inquiring head of a yellow-billed duck that . . . utters a contemptuous 'quack' and disappears...
...over into the House looking for a fight with a Representative. Down the centre aisle, shoulders hunched, hands deep in pockets (his usual carriage, but now more sour than ever) stalked Senator Thaddeus H. Caraway of hungry Arkansas. At a table sat baggy-faced Representative Louis C. Cramton, lame duck of Michigan, busy with papers. Beside him was big Representative Schafer of Wisconsin. Mr. Schafer poked Mr. Kramdens ribs, tried to call his attention to the Senatorial intruder. Mr. Cramton got busier than ever with his papers. Chip still on shoulder, Senator Caraway turned, strolled...