Word: laming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because the law governing sessions of Congress has not been changed since election returns and Congressmen traveled from far states by horsepower over muddy roads, 70 of the $10,000-per-year men will sit in Washington until March 4 without really having any business there. They are the "lame ducks"-12 Senators, 58 Representatives-who lost their offices in last month's election. Their newly chosen successors will not be given a chance to do their people's business until a year from next week, unless a special session of the 72nd Congress is called...
...special session of Congress to joining the army of unemployed,'' grunted Insurgent Senator Borah last week. He was being facetious, but he was touching upon the precise reason why Congressmen have refused five times in the past decade to pass the resolution of Senator Norris to abolish "lame duck" sessions. Congressmen are, more tenaciously than almost any other class of professional men, jobholders. That is why those whose states are losing seats fought so bitterly, and may fight again, the already long-delayed Reapportionment of the House (see col. 3). And that is why the most immediate, uncontroversial...
...insurgent Senate Republicans, who really are thought to desire an extra session of the 72nd Congress and who have the following legislative axes to grind: 1) Gov ernment operation cf Muscle Shoals, 2) Export Debenture farm-relief, 3) Antiinjunction labor mills, 4) The Norris bill to abolish "lame duck" sessions, 5 ) Large road-building appropriations. Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart of Iowa last week said he would favor a special session of the 72nd Congress unless all these measures were passed. Senator Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota last week ex pressed similar views. Idaho's Senator William Edgar Borah cryptically, characteristically telegraphed...
...first "lame ducks" to be received by the President after the election was Henry Justin Allen, Senator-reject from Kansas. Citizen Allen emerged from the White House loudly denying that he was looking for or would accept any Federal lame-duck roost...
...fundamental trouble. A survey course such as elementary Fine Arts has pictures and slides to form continuity in the student's mind, but Philosophy A leaves behind for many only a host of intellectual specters headed by octogenarian Socrates babbling worn out truths to a motley train of the lame, the halt, and the blind...