Word: lamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such popular periodicals as TIME would join in the advocacy of this much-needed legislation, two-term presidential administrations will go the way of the "lame duck" session of Congress...
Weighing well, let Subscriber White hound his Congressman or Senator to present a Constitutional Amendment for a single term for President, noting Senator George William Norris' long fight against the "lame duck" session, won in Congress last year (TIME, Feb. 22 et seq.). TIME will report progress...
...President on the way out, especially if he has been beaten by the biggest vote in history, has small authority over a "lame duck" Congress. Yet last week President Hoover sent Congress a special message on debtor relief which touched off sudden springs of electric action on Capitol Hill...
...Senate the House beer bill was referred to the Judiciary Committee for a look at its constitutionality, after which it would go to the Finance Committee to have its revenue raising features examined. Loudly fearful that such procedure would cause delay, Connecticut's Republican Bingham, a "lame duck" who would like to see his name tagged to Wet legislation, attempted to execute a slick trick by moving immediate consideration of a 3.2% beer bill of his own. His motion was defeated 48-10-23 after Democrats hotly accused him of seeking "partisan advantage' But this vote was only...
...Collier beer bill through the House of Representatives (TIME, Dec. 26); of acute indigestion; in Washington. Beer associate of St. Louis' Adolphus Busch and Manhattan's Col. Jacob Ruppert, he long lobbied for the U. S. Brewers' Association, led the American Bar Association fight to abolish "lame duck" sessions of Congress, at one of which his beer bill was finally passed...