Word: laming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Debated a constitutional amendment to do away with "lame duck" sessions of Congress...
What may yet become the 20th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution moved swiftly through the House of Representatives toward probable passage. It was the hoary old proposition to rearrange the regular sessions of Congress so as to exile the "lame duck" from the legislative barnyard.* Also involved was a change in the date of the Presidential inaugural...
...Norris "lame duck" amendment, changing sessions of Congress...
Congressmen from the South. The first was Samuel Rutherford, 61, of Forsyth, Ga. He had been a Representative since 1925, was chairman of the Election Committee framing legislation to eliminate "lame duck" sessions of Congress...
...late Undersecretary of State, Joseph Potter Cotton, who advised him: "Freddie, you've been here 13 years and haven't done a thing. Maine hasn't had a statesman since James G. Elaine. Couldn't you try to be a statesman?" So halting and lame was his management of the 1928 bill authorizing...