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...passing of the last "lame duck" session in U. S. history was a sombre, subdued affair. The nation was too wracked with troubles for silly songs and partisan chatter. The nearest thing to a joke was cracked by Republican Senate. Leader Watson, defeated for reelection, when he announced that he was "going home with the almost unanimous consent of the people of Indiana...
Their remarks were not addressed to Utah's grim, bespectacled Reed Smoot who as the committee's Republican chairman sat nodding at the head of the long green-baize table. He is a lame duck, soon to fall from his roost. Nor did the witnesses talk to impress Michigan's white-crested Couzens or Pennsylvania's sad-faced Reed or Wisconsin's pompadoured La Follette. All these would soon be in an impotent Republican minority. The man the witnesses knew they were talking to was the tall, rangy, half-bald Democrat who slumped...
Wisconsin's Elaine (lame duck). Asked he: "How long does the Senator think he may continue his debate...
...began Representative Ruth Bryan Owen, Florida "lame duck," daughter of the late great William Jennings Bryan, last week at a luncheon given by the Women's National Press Club to the women members of Congress. Clearing her throat, svelte Mrs. Owen read in a husky voice her "Last Will and Testament of a Lame Duck...
...nature of the word prestige if it took definite action on relatively important matters than if it quibbled sonorously over trifles, which, as Barry pointed out yesterday, even Senators have admitted to be true. Such an argument, however, neglects eternal verities. After all, to what end lame ducks and hueylongs? There are only twenty-three days left. On with the dance...