Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Speaker Longworth was last week granted a three-day leave by the House to rest at Aiken, S. C. In his absence Nebraska's Senator Norris proposed the Senate investigate his " discourtesy" by keeping for ten months on his desk without action a Senate proposal to eliminate " lame duck" sessions of Congress...
...hour yesterday afternoon by the unique story of Frank Fielding, Radio Keith Orpheum's traveling usher, who is on his feet all but two hours each day and is one of six survivors in the International Collegiate Endurance Contest. Clothed in a light silk shirt, and white duck trousers, with a blue sash about his waist, the 19-year old Californian student appeared at 14 Plympton Street and told of the gruelling grind which hope of sharing in a $70,000 award is inducing him to continue until April...
About Washington he motors in rakish automobiles behind uniformed chauffeurs. With his crony Senator Reed he makes many a journey down the Potomac for fishing, duck-shooting, in a speedboat they own jointly. He smokes pipes and cigarets, chews tobacco. Cards he plays with hard, businesslike skill. He belongs to six clubs in Denver, four in New York, four in Washington...
...save her husband, the statesmen to rule his realm. As presiding officer of a specially created Council of State she signed for His Majesty hundreds of state papers, among which the following Order in Council was not the least: "It shall not be lawful to import any hen or duck eggs in shell into the United Kingdom, nor to sell or expose for sale in the United Kingdom any imported hen or duck eggs in shell, unless they bear an indication of origin...
...only competitor of U. S. egg farmers, supplied about 40% of U. S. consumption of frozen and dried eggs despite the tariff which was raised last year from 6 to 7? per pound. Imports of shell eggs are about one-tenth of 1% and consist mostly of preserved duck eggs for Chinamen...