Word: lamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Agriculturist-Diplomat Jardine's lame-duck return from Egypt last autumn was timely for Kansas Republicans. He was just the well-known, respected stop-gap they needed for the State Treasury, headless and reeking after the Finney bond scandal (TIME...
...that the new liberal complexion derives not only from President Roosevelt but from the old "insurgent" Republicans or Progressives with whom, the old Democratic minority used to work. Out of line with all parties for a lifetime, Nebraska's grey old Senator Norris, who finally slew the archaic lame duck session of Congress with the 20th Amendment, now finds the majority party in line with himself on public utilities and farm relief. Colorado's Costigan was for years the left-handed bad boy of the Tariff Commission. He will shortly behold his dream- a rationalized, selective tariff-walking...
...characterize Ambassador Grew as "a trifle lame and slightly deaf." We who-have known Mr. Grew here for the year past and have seen him on all sorts of occasions' and even watched him play golf have had no idea that he was even a trifle lame. Anyhow he is an A No. 1 American ambassador. Every time he has made a speech since he came to Japan we have been proud of him and' proud of our country...
...police kept the texts rigidly secret. After grim days of extreme alarm, with police guarding banks, major business offices, electric power stations and waterworks, tension relaxed sufficiently for Premier Saito to give a party. Out of their limousine stepped U. S. Ambassador & Mrs. Joseph Clark Grew, he a trifle lame and slightly deaf. Just as they reached the Premier's door bedlam broke loose. Japanese police with drawn pistols surrounded the Grews. Others brandished swords and screeched. "These people," someone shouted, "are assassins...
...Gibbons of New York to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Herbert Jackson Drane of Florida to be a Federal power Commissioner; Conway P. Coe of Maryland to be Commissioner of Patents; Fred W. Johnson of Wyoming to be Commissioner of the General Land Office. Ewin Lamar Davis, Tennessee "lame duck," brother of Ambassador-at-Large Norman Davis, got a minor job as trade commissioner...