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...leader came out of the Senate and the old ones were either "lame ducks" or disgruntled individualists with a narrowing conception of public service. Borah stock was far below...
...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 the armed intruder and called up: "All right, son, you can have the floor and make your speech...
...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...
...House of Representatives, I impeach Herbert Hoover, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors and offer the following resolution. . . ." The House, shocked as if by electricity, sat bolt upright. For 20 seconds there was a stunned silence. Not since 1868 when that other Pennsylvanian, lame Thaddeus Stevens, made charges against Andrew Johnson, had the awful ritual of impeachment been uttered in the House against a U. S. President.* An excited buzzing broke loose as Representative McFadden passed his resolution to the clerk on the rostrum and took a seat on the front-row bench. Beneath...
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