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Senator Bruce of Maryland was the sole Democrat to vote for Senator Cummins. Borah, Gooding, Norbeck and Jones joined the insurgents in voting for Couzens. Senators Hiram Johnson of California and Capper of Kansas also joined the Couzens forces, who at their highest point polled 14 votes, compared with about 34 for Cummins and 36 for Smith on the later ballots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Loggerheads | 12/31/1923 | See Source »

After the close eighth ballot and an almost equally close ninth, Mr. Bruce had apparently averted the greatest danger. The insurgents began experimenting with various progressive candidates. Mr. Couzens gained favor and secured the votes of Borah, Gooding, Norbeck, Jones. Mr. Cummins also voted (for the first time) for Mr. Couzens, the object being to prevent a sudden shift of the insurgents from naming Smith. With a fifth day of balloting in sight the 'deadlock continued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Eighth Ballot | 12/24/1923 | See Source »

...farmers and men of politics went to the White House to present to President Coolidge their plan for alleviating distressed farmers. The callers were from the Ninth Federal Reserve District (Montana, North Dakota, Soutli Dakota, Minnesota, northern Wisconsin and the northern peninsula of Michigan). In their numbers were: Senator Norbeck, Representative Royal C. Johnson and ex-Governor Herried, of South Dakota; Senator Frazier and Representative Young, of North Dakota; N.J. Holmberg, Secretary of Agriculture of Minnesota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: A Proposal | 10/8/1923 | See Source »

...does not wipe out the Republican majority in the Senate next December. To be sure, conceding the loss of both seats, the Republicans will still have a paper majority of six. But a paper majority is not a voting majority, when it includes La Follette, Brookhart, Norris, Frazer, Norbeck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Paper Majority | 5/28/1923 | See Source »

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