Word: lamely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...serving three consecutive terms in Congress, he was defeated last November by Democrat John W. Boehne. And last week he was arrested at Evansville, Ind., charged with having accepted $750 from two relatives of one Gresham Ayer in return for recommending Ayer to be a rural mail carrier.* Venal Lame Duck Rowbottom refused to say anything about the case when he posted $10,000 bond and was released pending organization of a Federal Grand Jury...
Debate on the issue was slow, technical, dragging on for four days. Adroitly the "power trust" foes wangled the issue around so that it would appear that a vote against the Thomas Walsh resolution was a vote for the "power trust." Administration Senators said little. They let round-faced Lame Duck Senator Goff of West Virginia lead the Hoover defense. When the question finally came to a vote, the Thomas Walsh resolution was adopted (44-10-37) by an alliance of Democrats with the Insurgent crew including Idaho's Borah, California's Johnson, New Mexico's Cutting...
...sent to a Federal penitentiary for using the mails to defraud. In 1924 his term was over, but he was convicted on a State charge sentenced for seven to nine years. In the interim he was released on bond and hurried to Florida where he tried a lame scheme. He got in trouble with Florida's courts, attempted to flee the U. S., was caught in New Orleans, returned to Massachusetts. In October 1931, he will be eligible for parole, is not preparing to fight. In Boston Federal Prison, he was popular because of his ability to write amusing...
When these Power Commissioners' nominations arrived at the Capitol, many a Senator bristled with innate suspicion. Opposition quickly developed to Mr. McNinch. By law his place on the Commission must go to a Democrat. But Mr. McNinch, recommended by North Carolina's "lame duck" Senator Simmons, helped lead the 1928 anti-Smith movement which turned his State Republican. Senate Democrats doubted his Democracy, sought to question him on his 1930 vote. Another charge against Commissioner McNinch-which he loudly denied-was that he had covert connections with the Duke power interests and from them secured political funds, still...
Secretary into Senator. The congressional program of the Administration as outlined last week was simple: to put the Government's necessary Supply bills ahead of all other business, postponing as long as possible all controversial subjects like Prohibition, Muscle Shoals, Power Commission, Lame Duck Session, Immigration, Farm Problem. Unemployment would be touched on in the Supply bills-extra appropriation to enlarge Federal building of roads, offices, ships, dams, dikes, barracks. But Chairman Bert Snell of the House Rules Committee, one of the Republican Big Three,* was acknowledging the likelihood and trying to soften the impact of Democratic-insurgent opposition...