Word: norrisism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Of the Minority Platform itself, people said that the voice was the voice of La Follette but the hand was the hand of Senator George W. Norris, the deep-eyed, thin-lipped Nebraskan who is guarding the elder La Follette's mantle until the son is sere enough to...
A rumor even got about that President Coolidge had killed Senator Norris's pet bill out of pique because the Senator blocked the President's nomination of a Federal Judge in Alaska.
Senator Norris talked seriously of having the Muscle Shoals act declared law despite its "pocketing." His argument hinged upon the nature of the adjournment Congress has taken. If it is a thoroughgoing adjournment in the Constitutional sense of the word, then the bill is dead. But if it could be...
If Senator Norris insists, the Supreme Court may have a nice stickler before it, though there is a precedent in the U. S. Court of Claims which would uphold the Muscle Shoals "pocket veto."
Columns have been written about Hoover's strategy, his war record, his whirlwind courtship, his lowly birth, and even about his cooks, but not a word has been printed about his skill with rod, reel, and creel. It is understandable, pe haps, that the attention of the public might be...