Word: laming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Onstage. In such aimless chantings Congress did not get much work done. Dixiecrats successfully carried off a filibuster which killed the Alaska and Hawaii statehood bills for this session. The bills had been at the top of Mr. Truman's legislative list for the lame-duck session...
...Ways & Means Committee room. The clerk droned through the roll in a rising crescendo of bedlam and backslapping. The House knew, even though the Senate might not admit it, that what remains of the 81st Congress would be full of sound & fury, signifying nothing. The principal task of the lame-duck session, triumphant Bob Taft had said, was to "adjourn...
...Unemployed. The President had also failed to hook a full-time civilian defense director, or someone to be Assistant Attorney General in charge of antitrust prosecutions. At the end of the lame-duck session of the 81st Congress he would have eleven Democratic ex-Senators and 47 ex-Congressmen to pick from. But what he really needed were some able men from industry, and they wouldn't come...
Drawing up such a compromise would take time, perhaps too much for a bill to be passed even by the House before Christmas. Even if the House did pass it, most legislators doubted that the Senate would during the lame-duck session...
Cheered by talk of an early end to the Korean war and fading chances for the excess profits tax in the lame-duck session of Congress (see above), the Dow-Jones industrials rose to 235.47 (up 4.8 points in a week), the highest since the autumn of 1930. The rails rose to 71.06, highest since 1931. The New York Herald Tribune's closely watched average of 100 stocks finally broke through its 1946 bull market high of 137.45, and reached 137.63, also the highest since...