Word: lameduck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James H. R. ("Jimmy") Cromwell, rich Doris Duke's husband, arrived in company with Governor Marriner S. Eccles of the Federal Reserve to show the President a movie on economics embodying a theory of Mr. Cromwell's to which Mr. Eccles takes strong exception. Lameduck Congressman John J. McGrath of California; Deputy Administrator Aubrey Williams of WPA, who had just put his foot in his mouth again (see p. 14); Dr. Will Alexander, the Farm Security Administrator-these were Presidential callers from afar, before Ambassador Hugh Wilson arrived from Berlin...