Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...insurgent Senate Republicans, who really are thought to desire an extra session of the 72nd Congress and who have the following legislative axes to grind: 1) Gov ernment operation cf Muscle Shoals, 2) Export Debenture farm-relief, 3) Antiinjunction labor mills, 4) The Norris bill to abolish "lame duck" sessions, 5 ) Large road-building appropriations. Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart of Iowa last week said he would favor a special session of the 72nd Congress unless all these measures were passed. Senator Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota last week ex pressed similar views. Idaho's Senator William Edgar Borah cryptically, characteristically telegraphed...
...first "lame ducks" to be received by the President after the election was Henry Justin Allen, Senator-reject from Kansas. Citizen Allen emerged from the White House loudly denying that he was looking for or would accept any Federal lame-duck roost...
Virginia natives were chuckling last week over a story about Tycoons William Ellis Corey (steel) and Joseph K. Knapp (American lithographic) and some 3,800 wild ducks on their expensive Back Bay and Currituck Sound shooting preserves. The story was that Sportsmen Corey & Knapp, just to be sure of something to shoot at when they went ducking, caused expert duck raisers to hatch and raise 3,800 wild fowl. So fond of their homes did these ducks become, so fat did they grow on tycoon-bought grain, that when Sportsmen Corey, Knapp & friends appeared to do some shooting, the ducks...
...accommodate the pious duck hunters of Albuquerque, N. Mex., who foray before dawn, Father Thomas H. Bortell of San Felipe de Neri Church there, announced last week that special mass would be celebrated at 4:30 a. m. on All Saints' Day and Sundays during the duck season. Worshippers were invited to appear in gunning togs...
...Sweringens. They knew their pyramid had been built quickly, they knew certain bond clauses which demand put up more securities under certain involving lower prices would attract Bears. Long before the gathered they had lined up potent On the actual day of the selling Brother Mantis James was duck-hunting and Brother Oris Paxton was in before the New England governors' railroad committee, urging that the hold over New York, New Haven & Hartford be broken. As expected the storm subsided, a subsequent rally blew the clouds away. And many a Clevelander believed that "The Vans," by buying their...