Word: nebraskan
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...Nebraska, an old-fashioned man with ruffled grey hair, is the leader of the insurgent, if any Senator can be called such, now that "Old Bob" LaFollette is dead. From the farm Mr. Norris went through teaching and the law to Congress. In 1910 his fame burst like a Nebraskan sunflower when he led the fight in the House that overthrew the dictatorship of Speaker "Uncle Joe" Cannon (TIME, Nov. 22). Since 1913 he has been in the Senate. He admits no Republican or Democratic or third party prejudices; no mind but his own controls his booming voice. This autumn...
Republican Senator George W. Norris, whose Nebraskan voice no mind but his own can control, swung into Pennsylvania, campaigned for William Bauchop Wilson, onetime (1913-21) Secretary of Labor and now Democratic candidate for the Senate. Senator Norris was not so much for Mr. Wilson, able Wilson though he is, as against Congressman William S. Vare, winner in the great Republican slush-fund primary of last May. Piqued, Republican Manager William L. Mellon, nephew of the Secretary of the Treasury, called upon Senator Norris to go back home, to leave Keystoners to attend to their own business. Democrats deemed this...
Meanwhile Senator Norris, insurgent Nebraskan, contemplates again the worthwhileness of political life, the betrayals, the corruption, the callow honors. He recalls the "treason" his Progressive friends played him some years ago when they backed the Kenyon packer bill instead of his own packer bill. That day he collapsed in the Senate. Since, he has remained inexcitable over the rehashed chatter, begun by Mr. LaFollette in 1924, to give U. S. politics another Progressive orientation. Feeling that most of the institutions they are combating are as firmly embedded as ever, he now, as in 1924, turns toward the recourse of soft...
...good debater, a good lawyer, industrious, the Nebraskan is distinguished mostly for his courage. He has not thought anything worth stooping for. Two years ago he was re-elected despite the fact that he did not leave Washington for his campaign, utter a speech, spend a penny. Homely, "dish-faced" some describe him-he has acquired a prestige which doubtless surprises...
...Raymond McCarl is a Nebraskan who came to Washington as the private secretary of good insurgent, Senator Norris. In 1918 he was Secretary of the Republican Congressional Committee end an important factors in the Republicans' regaining control of the House. When the office of Controller General was created President Harding appointed him. He holds office for 15 years and can be removed by Congress only for misbehavior. He can veto any disbursement of money that he regards as illegal. So far he clashed with practically every Cabinet officer-and came off victorious, such is the power of his office...