Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...upheld, the Plan will go into effect January 1, 1942, but up until that time Cambridge will be run by a "lame duck" administration...
Also on the program is another Dr. Kildare picture which has no distinguishing features aside from a blast for socialized medicine that ought to put the entire membership of the A.M.A. in bed for a week. And finally there is Donald Duck and Pluto in a sequence on bathing which is by far the best thing on the program...
Carpenters came last week to Capitol Plaza, lugging tools and timber. Tourists stared; occasionally a gloomy lame-duck Congressman pottered by. The carpenters' job was to build the Inaugural Day platform, set up hundreds of benches, before Washington's winter closed...
...Duck maybe-eagle never." Fannie Hurst (pro-Roosevelt): "This is the end of an era, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and don't you forget it." John Llewellyn Lewis: "I assert again that the re-election of President Roosevelt will result in the nation's involvement in war." Frank R. Kent: ". . . Support...
...crisis--the Thanksgiving Day question. On November 21 the inhabitants of 32 states will sit down to turkey dinners in obedience to the President's proclamation. Sixteen states, the ill-fed third of the nation (and that means all of New England) will dine simply that day on roast duck and truffles, and will celebrate Thanksgiving a week later...