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...held a series of conferences with Secretaries Stimson and Mills on British and French War debt notes (see p. 8). Suddenly changing his plans, President Hoover decided to send Congress a special message this week on Debts, Disarmament and the World Economic Conference, Senators and Representatives, many of them "lame ducks," kept interrupting by popping in to "pay their respects," and explain volubly the whys & wherefores of election results. Ambassador Edge called to say good-by before starting back to France. Another caller was John Work Garrett, bearded, limping Ambassador to Italy. Dr. Don Ricardo Alfaro had his credentials...
Democratic Morrow. Born (1878) and bred in Tennessee where he still lives at Tullahoma, Mr. Davis comes from a long line of Democrats. One of his five brothers, Ewin, is now the "lame duck" chairman of the House Merchant Marina, Radio & Fisheries committee. In 1902 Norman Davis went to Cuba, where in 15 years he made his fortune in banking, construction, dredging. His Havana partner was Tillinghast I'Hommedieu Huston, onetime Colonel in the Army Engineers, onetime part-owner of the New York Yankees...
What may be the last "lame duck" session of Congress in U. S. history opened a three-month sitting last week.* Under a bright December sun the Capitol gleamed whiter than usual after a bath by the local fire department. When Speaker Garner called the 72nd House to order to take up the nation's business, on its rolls were still 144 members whom the People had rejected as law-makers on Nov. 8. Lame ducks in the Senate numbered 14. Prime job of the session: enactment of eleven bills appropriating more than four billion dollars for next year...
...Repeal: 168 Democrats, 103 Republicans, 1 Farmer-Laborite. Against Repeal: 43 Democrats; 101 Republicans. Sixty-two lame ducks voted Dry. Since the last session Wets had run their strength up from 187 to 272. Speaker Garner indicated that the House would not get another chance to vote on Repeal this session...
...Minutes. The Senate's first-day session lasted 19 minutes. Lame ducks were loudly joshed back & forth across the aisle. No business was done. From Denver, Democrat Walter Walker flew to Washington, was sworn in as Colorado's Senator pending the arrival of the official election certificate of Republican Karl Schuyler. Two other new Senators: North Carolina's Robert Reynolds and Washington's Elyot Grammer. Absent was Pennsylvania's Senator Davis, whose right to sit has been questioned since his indictment in connection with the Moose lottery (TIME, Aug. 29; Oct. 10). His wife explained...