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With notable lack of enthusiasm, the lame-duck 81st Congress limped back into Washington this week for one final fling at the legislative process. Only about 250 House members showed up, and a full 25 Senators were absent from the first roll call...
...hand were many familiar faces, some soon to be seen around the halls of Congress no more. Big, bronzed lame-duck Scott Lucas, after a visit to the White House, went through the motions of majority leader. His gear was all packed. He will be at home in Havana, Ill. after Jan. 3, practicing law. Pennsylvania's Francis J. Myers, the majority whip, was equally relaxed: he will soon be a Philadelphia lawyer again...
...Ways & Means Committee room. The clerk droned through the roll in a rising crescendo of bedlam and backslapping. The House knew, even though the Senate might not admit it, that what remains of the 81st Congress would be full of sound & fury, signifying nothing. The principal task of the lame-duck session, triumphant Bob Taft had said, was to "adjourn...
...corporate income tax or Snyder's 75% excess profits levy. But Chairman Robert Lee ("Muley") Doughton, 87-year-old North Carolina Democrat, refused to listen to any alternatives, insisted that Congress had given him a "mandate" to report out only an excess profits tax in time for the lame duck session...
...Lame Duck Senator Claude Pepper: Has to be interpreted as a gain for the conservative and isolationist forces in the country...