Word: laming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...held a series of conferences with Secretaries Stimson and Mills on British and French War debt notes (see p. 8). Suddenly changing his plans, President Hoover decided to send Congress a special message this week on Debts, Disarmament and the World Economic Conference, Senators and Representatives, many of them "lame ducks," kept interrupting by popping in to "pay their respects," and explain volubly the whys & wherefores of election results. Ambassador Edge called to say good-by before starting back to France. Another caller was John Work Garrett, bearded, limping Ambassador to Italy. Dr. Don Ricardo Alfaro had his credentials...
Democratic Morrow. Born (1878) and bred in Tennessee where he still lives at Tullahoma, Mr. Davis comes from a long line of Democrats. One of his five brothers, Ewin, is now the "lame duck" chairman of the House Merchant Marina, Radio & Fisheries committee. In 1902 Norman Davis went to Cuba, where in 15 years he made his fortune in banking, construction, dredging. His Havana partner was Tillinghast I'Hommedieu Huston, onetime Colonel in the Army Engineers, onetime part-owner of the New York Yankees...
What may be the last "lame duck" session of Congress in U. S. history opened a three-month sitting last week.* Under a bright December sun the Capitol gleamed whiter than usual after a bath by the local fire department. When Speaker Garner called the 72nd House to order to take up the nation's business, on its rolls were still 144 members whom the People had rejected as law-makers on Nov. 8. Lame ducks in the Senate numbered 14. Prime job of the session: enactment of eleven bills appropriating more than four billion dollars for next year...
...cede one of those barren islands in the North Atlantic, which it has been asserted, have no value except in the unlikely event of war. Let the government turn the island over to Mrs. Peabody, and guarantee to keep it barren. There Mrs. Peabody, and for good measure the lame duck dries in Congress, can maintain unhampered their ideal regime, the Sahara of the Boozart...
...Many a "lame duck" remains in the capital long after his defeat because female members of his household, enchanted with Washington society, refuse to move back to the boredom of their home community. *Nevertheless, last week the Garners moved into more pretentious quarters on the seventh floor of the Washington Hotel, facing the Treasury. Said he: "We're home lovers and we like to stay in the place where we know everybody from the bellhops to the manager...