Word: lameduck
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...uniform, suitable for one silver star, had waited for orders to fly to North Africa, perhaps dreaming of marching into Rome at the head of U.S. columns. But a Congressional hubbub over "political generals" had stopped the appointment cold; Franklin Roosevelt sent to Italy two other New York Democrats, lameduck Charles Poletti, ex-lieutenant governor, and William O'Dwyer, Brooklyn's D.A.-on-leave...
...special committee meeting of five Senators was called to discuss Jurney's job; Senator McKellar nominated Mississippi's lameduck Senator Wall Doxey to replace him. The legislators, meeting secretly, called in Jurney, made him argue hard & long for his job. At week's end no decision was apparent. Jurney's destiny will wait upon the committee report and a Senate vote...
...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...
...Americanisms to be despised? Henry Louis Mencken, defining them, says "The English seldom devise anything as pungent as rubberneck, ticket-scalper, lameduck, pork-barrel, bootlegger, steamroller (in its political sense). Such exhilarating novelties are produced in the U. S. every day, and large numbers of them come into universal use, and gradually take on literary dignity. They are opposed violently, but they prevail...
Nevertheless, people were puzzled last week when the State Department said it had queried the Peruvian Government to see if Mr. Moore would be an acceptable successor to Miles Poindexter of Spokane, erstwhile Senatorial lameduck, who soon vacates his Ministry at Lima. President Coolidge is most sensitive to criticism of his appointments and people who have not seen Mr. Moore lately still think of him as a Pittsburgher of the burghiest. Why should President Coolidge choose Mr. Moore? 'Why, moreover, should Mr. Moore want to go to Peru...