Word: lameness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Designated Maine's Hale as chairman of the Appropriations Committee vice Washington's Jones, deceased, and California's "Lame Duck" Shortridge as chairman of Naval Affairs, vice Senator Hale...
Guffawed when Democratic Leader Robinson referred to the "death" of Republican Leader Watson instead of Colorado's Waterman. Said Lame Duck Watson: "I'm just politically dead...
...inevitable. Later the House will vote on a beer bill and perhaps knock together a special revenue measure to balance the Budget. If it gets that much done in the next two and one-half months it will pat itself on the back and think it has established a "lame duck" record...
...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...