Word: nebraskan
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...Norris treats Regular Republicanism as he does, presidential patronage is something of which his Nebraska gets very little. This situation is specially well known since a Pulitzer Prize was awarded to an editorial on the subject. Therefore gossipy tongues were set wagging last week when President Hoover picked a Nebraskan to be Agriculture's member of the Federal Reserve Board, vice Edward Henry Cunningham, deceased. The new man is big, husky, talkative Wayland W. Magee, 49, of Bennington. Mr. Magee did not have Senator Norris' endorsement, but he had the next best thing, the endorsement of Senator Robert...
...President's sentiments. Hence it was with a loose-worded ferocity seldom exhibited by the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee that Senator Norris retorted to Mr. Wood by accusing President, Hoover of personally approving the "conspiracy." "Cowardly . . . underhanded . . . disreputable ..." were some of the epithets the ghosty Nebraskan spat out in the direction of the White House. "I was fighting for the Republican party and its upbuilding and puri- fication when Mr. Hoover himself was a resident and voter of Great Britain. . . . When he came to this country from Great Britain he became a Democrat. . . . He remained a Democrat...
...feel that I am worthy of having my name mentioned with his in the connection that it is used, yet I want you to know of my appreciation of the honor you do me both in associating my name with his and in mentioning my name as a prominent Nebraskan...
...appointment. Twenty-seven Senators voted against his confirmation. Their complaint was that he was not a real wheat farmer, that he knew nothing about wheat farming, that he was out of sympathy with Federal aid for those who did produce this crop. His most bitter opponent was his fellow Nebraskan, Senator George William Norris, whose candidacy for the Presidency he did not take seriously last year. Confirmation of the Board did not materially clear up all the uncertainties which confront this new Federal agency. In Washington the feeling persisted that the Board had no set policy. Senators and Congressmen...
...sovereign design, imbued with all his prowess and pride. To hear it criticized was torture to him. And, in Nebraska not only had he faced charges of ineptitude and duplicity, but, unlike the commission which had picked the bold Goodhue design from among ten other plans submitted, many Nebraskans were blunt, blind, interpreted everything in financial terms. If Architect Goodhue had been alive last week he would probably have been miserable again. For the Nebraska capitol, now all but completed, was again being impugned. The charges lodged with the state legislature were identical in source and similar in substance...