Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the election to the Senate last fall of Dr. Henrik Shipstead, called by his enemies " the duck-hunting dentist," the fortunes of the Farmer-Labor Party rose. Dr. Shipstead defeated the regular Republican, Senator Kellogg, and the Democratic candidate, Mrs. Peter J. Oleson. Senator La Follette traveled over from Wisconsin to help elect Dr. Shipstead. Sometime between the primaries in June, and the special election in July the Wisconsin Senator is expected to invade Minnesota once more on behalf of the next Farmer-Labor candidate, whoever he may be. Neither Democrats nor regular Republicans look with favor...
...travel has its compensations. There is considerable distinction in being on terms of familiarity with a live cassowary, to say nothing of a wallaroo. These men derive great satisfaction from pacing the deck with the paw of a wallaby tucked under one arm, and a cortege consisting of a duck-billed platypus, a green opossum and wombats trailing in the rear. One ship brought a huge tortoise, the last of his race, giant lizards, penguins and cormorants that had forgotten...
...chairman of the Committee on the Reception of Foreign Students of the Class of 1925 announced last night the election of the following Sophomores to the committee: Tung Liang Chang of Peking, China; Patricio Vanenzuela Confessor of Manilla, P. I.; Kyung Duck Har of Chunju, Korea; Unbay Hsu of Peking, China; Jorge Manuel Morales of Caguas, Porto Rico; and Luis Rechani-Agrait of Aguas Buenas, Porto Rico...
...short term, "lame duck" Congress has at last fluttered to its long rest, and nothing in its term was more characteristic than the leaving of it. In the midst of Saturday afternoon's flurry in the House, legislation was again brought to a standstill by the refusal of Acting Speaker Campbell and Mr. Mondell to take up the Nitrates Bill. The joy of hilbustering is evidently infectious, for from the House it spread to the Senates where Senator Heflin, stemming the flood of some fifty House bills yet to be passed, arose and began a sympathetic strike. Fortunately the legislative...
...Amendment, which would advance the date of inauguration of the President and seating of Congress, gained strength in the House, but its passage is not conceded in this session. The measure, which passed the Senate by odds of more than 10 to 1, is aimed at the ubiquitous " lame duck" Congressman, who, defeated and repudiated by his constituency, continues long afterward to wreak his will upon legislation. It provides that the President and Vice President shall take office the third Monday in January and that Congress shall be seated the first Monday in January instead of March...