Word: neb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Norris began wrapping the comfortable old-fashioned furniture in sheets, a handy man began nailing up the shutters. Only one thing was unusual. When the Norrises went to the railroad station and boarded a train on the Burlington, their tickets read not to Washington, D. C. but to Lincoln, Neb. George Norris was going this time to present to the people of Nebraska, "who have done so much for me," something "that will benefit them after I am dead, that will benefit their children after them": a unicameral Legislature...
...years ago Charles S. Ryckman, an editor of Fremont, Neb., won the Pulitzer Prize with an editorial arguing that the reason Nebraska regularly re-elected Norris was that through him it could take a slap at the East. Since then this idea has gained much currency, but unfortunately almost no Nebraskans subscribe to it. They do not mind political irregularity for they are themselves politically irregular, frequently electing Democratic Governors at the same time that they vote Republican in national elections. Senator Norris, who has never had a political organization at home, has generally a more powerful individual appeal...
Celebrated. The 50th wedding anniversary of President Carl Raymond Gray of Union Pacific System and Harriette Flora Gray; with a dinner for 1,400 in the Omaha. Neb. Municipal Auditorium. Railroad presidents present were Milwaukee's Henry Alexander Scandrett, Chicago & North Western's Fred Wesley Sargent, Northern Pacific's Charles Donnelly, Pennsylvania's Martin Withington Clement, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy's Ralph Budd...
...Arapahoe, Neb., one-third of the 1,017 villagers was afflicted with mumps...
Into a Monticello, N. Y., police station walked honest Andrew Bitting, dusty and broke after hitchhiking 1,500 miles from Beatrice, Neb., to confess that he had fled Monticello this summer after bumping his old car harmlessly into a bus. Andrew Bitting could not pay his $10 fine, was jailed for five days...