Word: lamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lame ducks" in the "lame duck" session of Congress opening this week, Vice President Curtis is by far the lamest. Congressional districts turned down 144 Representatives and 14 States rejected sitting Senators but the Vice President was crippled by the vote of the entire country. The President-reject was similarly crippled but he at least has the responsibility and power to "run the country" until March 4. With little enough to do before his rejection, a defeated Vice President is a figurehead indeed. Charles Curtis' defeat ("the first popular election I ever lost") kept intact the record that...
...Congress next spring. Though the party is pledged to Repeal, it will take every ounce of the new President's leadership to get_ such a resolution through the slow-shifting Senate. Meanwhile beer as a source of revenue looked like a certainty if not in the 72nd "lame duck" session then in the 73rd's first...
...with. Advertisement of stocks and bonds sold in interstate commerce will carry sworn data as to promoters' bonuses, commissions, invested principal and interest of sellers. Stock exchanges will not suffer. (Only really important change in the banking system is state-wide branch banking which may be put through the "lame duck" session...
...Little World Series against the Minneapolis Millers, American Association pennant winners. Another home run now by Baseman Owen, in the Millers' home park, would put the Bears ahead, give them the series, four games to two. Owen watched one ball go by, drew back for the second. Crack! Lame Woody Jenson watched the ball sail high above the right field fence, hobbled home. A boy who had scrambled down from the fence when the ball came his way watched it pass far overhead, clear the street outside, bang against a wall. By the time he recovered it Owen...
...roared forth a boisterous welcome as he rode through the streets with Mayor John Dore, nominal Republican, who declared: "President Hoover is a menace." Senator Clarence Cleveland Dill quickly squeezed himself close to the man whose nomination at Chicago he had helped engineer. Visiting a hospital for crippled children, lame Governor Roosevelt sympathized: "It's a little difficult for me to stand on my feet...