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...Lame Buck Private...
...upheld, the Plan will go into effect January 1, 1942, but up until that time Cambridge will be run by a "lame duck" administration...
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...
...Senate, Republicans got an unexpected ally in loudmouthed, gummy-grinned lame duck Rush Holt (Dem., W. Va.), who rose to flay New York's Democratic Governor Herbert Lehman, who (along with Henry Wallace) had suggested that the Axis powers wanted Roosevelt beaten. Lehman himself was fanning a war hysteria, said Holt, in order to swell the dividends of Lehman Corp., of which his cousin is president, and which, said Holt, holds shares in Bendix Aviation, Vultee, Stinson and Lockheed Aircraft, Hercules Powder, Dow Chemical, New York Shipbuilding, Freeport Sulphur, and Bethlehem, Republic, Youngstown and U. S. Steel...
Many a student organization would have died on its feet with as lame an opening meeting as the one held last night by the American Student Defense League, Harvard Chapter. But this League will not die soon, for it is undeniably riding the crest of a great wave of U. S. public opinion. It will last and probably grow, until no one will think any longer to ask the bothersome question, "What place is there for this group here?" Now, if ever, is the time to ask it, to inquire whether the League really seeks the utmost efficiency in defense...