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Senator Stanfield is the third Administration Senator to go by the board, to become a lame duck: first McKinley of Illinois (TIME, April 26), then Pepper of Pennsylvania, then Stanfield...
There are people who ignorantly suppose that the Senate is composed of sedentary gasbags who would prove to be lame ducks in other spheres of rough and tumble. Nothing could be further from the truth. The majority of Senators are temperamentally adventurers, knights-errant, more combatively courageous than fluent. It is quite typical that Raymond T. Baker, having exhausted most forms of excitement, announced last week his candidacy as U. S. Senator from Nevada...
...Hickling Bradford,* surgeon, orthopedist and Dean of the Harvard Medical School. The professional opposition to him raged, not against his operative principles and methods, rather against the noisy publicity newspapers gave him. The press touted him as a miracle worker, a Messiah come to redeem the halt and the lame. Cameramen got him, always genial and accommodating, to pose in ridiculous circumstances. One picture showed him kinked over and looking solemnly at the twisted head of a boy whom he had cured. The doctor, in his overcoat and without his hat. looked exactly like a small-time ventriloquist with...
...months between the election of a Congress and its assembling to about two months. Incidentally it would do away with the short term* in which filibusters are so effective, and by having a new session begin immediately after a new Congress is elected would do away with the "Lame Duck" legislators...
Your leading editor of today I find most pusillanimous with bastardy implied, perfidious in its ill-concealed splenetics, and hideous in its bombast. I cannot call it creditable journalism; too lame the tribute at its end, which does scant justice to a sheet of high repute, far higher than your...