Word: norrisism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Gann case is not likely to produce any Cabinet resignations, but to Washington's social actors and managers it seems a very serious matter indeed. Off in one corner of the theatre, watching the spectacle, sits a senator-Nebraska's George William Norris-who has more than...
"With the exception of Norris of Nebraska, now dejected and despondent over the hopelessness of his long struggle, and Tom Walsh of Montana, an able man but always vain and sometimes sentimental, the so-called Progressives in the United States Senate are a sorry bunch of weaklings and timeservers. The...
Shipstead−"His paucity of achievement, his colossal bombast, his lack of aggressiveness, his ardent playing of the political and social game, are a complete summary of the worth and role of the entire Progressive group, with exception of Norris."
The leading anti-Wall-Streeter in the House is Henry T. Rainey, a tall, white-haired old Illinois farmer who has been in every Congress but the 67th since the 58th. In the Senate are Heflin, Norris, Brookhart, Shipstead and many another hinterlander whose eyes are vigilantly cocked for city...
Observers noticed that, as is usually the case with Navy bills, the opposition was mostly composed of hinterlanders like Senator Norris.