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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...
...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...
...lame ducks" in the "lame duck" session of Congress opening this week, Vice President Curtis is by far the lamest. Congressional districts turned down 144 Representatives and 14 States rejected sitting Senators but the Vice President was crippled by the vote of the entire country. The President-reject was similarly crippled but he at least has the responsibility and power to "run the country" until March 4. With little enough to do before his rejection, a defeated Vice President is a figurehead indeed. Charles Curtis' defeat ("the first popular election I ever lost") kept intact the record that...
...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...
...From a duck hunt General Ashburn returned to New Orleans last week in fighting trim. He denounced Banker Lisman as an "unqualified liar," called him a "paid railroad lobbyist" declared that Mr. Lisman had had to apologize for similar statements last summer just when he (Ashburn) was about to sue for defamation of character. According to General Ashburn, all testimony in Chicago was part of a "railroad plot" to discredit his barge line. In the barge line's latest (1931) annual balance sheet, General Ashburn reports a net operating income of $298,756 and a deduction from cash revenues...