Word: mccook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Norris had something to do which he considered more important than attending the opening of Congress. All last week, while other Senators were assembling in Washington, in the little town of McCook on the Republican River in Redwillow County, Nebraska, George Norris took his usual walk from his house down to Floyd Hagenberger's barber shop to get his morning shave. From the barber shop he strolled as usual to the real-estate office of Carl Marsh, almost the only one of his cronies of bygone days with whom he still is intimate, for the rest have become...
Nebraskans are quite willing to turn down George Norris' ideas upon occasion. Only last month, McCook held an election to decide whether to accept a PWA offer of $105,000, 45% of the cost of bringing in electricity from the Platte Valley Public Power & Irrigation Project, to replace power now supplied by Iowa-Nebraska Power & Light Co. McCook's voters turned it down by vote of 782-523. But McCook's voters will probably never turn down George Norris himself who, since he has just been reelected, cannot commit political suicide again until 1942 when he will...
...McCook, Neb. the Commission rang the door bell of Republican Senator George Norris, found he was vacationing in Wisconsin, telegraphed him their "appreciation of the standard of public service which you have set and of the idealism which has been your guiding star...
...Justice McCook summed up in words of homely wisdom: "Most of those pretty faces are but masks for tainted bodies. The prostitute is both victim and enticer and her life is full of lies. . . . [But] if you believe what she says, then the story stands and the fact that she is a prostitute is of no moment...
...Saturday night when the jury of business and professional men retired to consider the case. Rather than lock up the jurymen, Justice McCook went to sleep in his chambers. Lucania and his friends lay down in their cells. Their wives went home. Just after 5 the next morning the judge was roused from his sleep. Lucania & friends shuffled into court in wrinkled clothes. Prosecutor Dewey, on the other hand, bounced in with a fresh shave...