Word: norrisism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Exhibit. Ancient is the Republican trick of bringing into the Senate Chamber during a tariff war an assortment of cheap imported articles to illustrate arguments on foreign cost, duty, selling price. In 1922 an elaborate display was set before the Senate when John Sharp Williams, onetime (1911-23) Senator from...
"After I was elected in 1926 I received an invitation signed Walter J. Fahy. . . . I threw it in the waste basket. . . . Then I came on down to Washington and I met [Senator Moses] who said: 'You have not answered Fahy's letter. . . . He's an old friend of Norris and...
"When I got down there, the first fellow that greeted me was Otto Kahn [Kuhn, Loeb & Co.]. ... I didn't recognize him as a particular friend of Norris and La Follette. . . . I looked around at that bunch and it seemed to me there was something doing and in a little...
Famed Nebraskans past, present and sometime: the Bryan Brothers (William Jennings, Charles Wayland), U. S. Senator George William Norris, Union Pacific R. R. President Carl Raymond Gray, U. S. Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl, Author Bess Streeter Aldrich (American Magazine, Ladies Home Journal), General John Joseph Pershing (LL.B. and onetime...
Manhattan Magistrate Jean Norris: "Of course I can appreciate the state of mind at the time, but that does not justify him in any way."