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Page 9-ist col. of your issue of Mar. 12-you speak of Ex-Senator Oscar W. Underwood as being a "lame duck...
OKLAHOMANS RESENT CALLING ROBERT L OWEN A LAME DUCK HE WOULD HAVE BEEN UNOPPOSED FOR REELECTION BUT CHOSE TO RETIRE SENATOR OWEN IS THE ACKNOWLEDGED AUTHOR OF AMERICAS MOST CONSTRUCTIVE LEGISLATION THE FEDERAL RESERVE ACT YOU ARE RIGHT HE WOULD BE TOWERING AS SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY OR AS PRESIDENT...
...finished, instead of making new Congressmen wait 13 months to be seated and adjourning on March 4 every other year, as now; also, so that the President would take office Jan. 15 instead of March 4. Last week the House hemmed and hawed as usual over this attack on "lame duck" sessions and modified Senator Norris's resolution beyond recognition. Then, as usual, it voted down the whole proposal. "Lame duckery" will continue. Representative La Guardia of New York promptly filed a bill to abolish "lame duckery" without amending the Constitution...
...Hungarian Government's lame explanation was that the guns were con- signed to Poland. The Italian Government, bolder, sought to forestall possible investigation by the League of Nations, postulating through the Fascist press the "unalterable opposition'' of Signer Benito Mussolini to such procedure...
...Senator Norris of Nebraska began urging a constitutional amendment to let the peoples' voice be heard afresh, in Congress and in the White House, without anachronistic delay. Thrice the Senate approved the Norris Resolution. Thrice the House remained static. Last fortnight the proposal to exterminate "lame duck" legislators and executives passed the Senate again, 67 to 6, and was sent to the House. It provided that Congress shall meet every year on January 4; that Congress shall sit every other year until through its business and at least until April 30 in the years between; that Presidential inaugurals shall...