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...want to be heard." Twenty feet below on the floor the House was taking a teller vote on a minor appropriation amendment. At the gallery gunner's outcry the hundred members present were seized with honest panic. Most of them sprinted for the safety of the cloakrooms. Others ducked under tables. A few sat petrified in their seats. One Representative who did not lose his head was Minnesota's "lame duck" Melvin Joseph Maas, an overseas aviator with the Marine Corps during the War. Stocky & brave, Representative Maas marched across the floor to a spot directly under...
...President Hoover appoints the Federal Home Loan Board, headed by his old friend and 1928 campaigner Franklin William Fort, "lame duck" Representative from New Jersey. Three days after taking office the Board marches to the White House to be photographed with the President. Says he: "Good luck and God bless...
Author of the beer bill was Mississippi's "Lame Duck" Collier. Ways & Means chairman, longtime Dry. On it the committee held a fortnight's hearings which in vehement arguments, loud controversy and ardent pleadings resembled many another Wet & Dry set-to at the Capitol. There was, however, this important difference: the committee's mind was made up in advance to act on beer. Thus, with their case already won, the Wets restricted their testimony to a minimum. Brewers supplied trade
Banging and hissing into the Combahee River, S. C. duck preserves of Broker Edward F, Hutton, Manhattan socialite, soared many a skyrocket, roman candle & firecracker, set off by angry hunters. They charged he had caused or permitted ducks to be scared from other preserves so that his own might be well-filled. Warned the Charleston Record in an editorial titled "Hutton, the Czar of Combahee": "There is a limit to the amount of arrogance human beings will stand from any member of their race. Mr. Hutton may some day learn that because he has bought a piece of property...
...bottom up through the Ways & Means. During his two-year absence "Jack" Garner, who entered the House with him in 1903, jumped ahead. Well may Representative Rainey wonder what his political destiny might have been, had he not lost one term out of 16. Even today only one "lame duck" (Mississippi's Collier) precedes him on the Committee over which he helped to> preside at last week's beer hearings. In all the 73rd Congress only one member of either House or Senate-North Carolina's tall, sallow-faced Pou. chairman of the Rules Committee-will have...