Word: norrisism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Life. Most people know that he was born in Iowa, son of a Quaker blacksmith; that he is chunky, round-faced, about six feet high, with beaverish shoulders and neck and with greying hair, much thinner and less brushed down than it used to be, and with his teeth chewed...
Against. The following Republicans are opposed, more or less openly, to Herbert Clark Hoover's nomination: Candidates Curtis, Dawes, Lowden, Norris, Watson, Willis; G. 0. Politicians in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois (the so-called Six Big States, with a total of 337 delegates, which the G...
¶ Listened to Vice President Dawes while he read an epistle from Congressional Medalist Lindbergh inviting each & every Senator to fly with him last week*.¶ Amended, passed and sent to the House the Norris resolution ordering the War Department to complete and operate the Government's $140,000...
Democrats Alfred E. Smith1380 James A. Reed 363 Albert C. Ritchie 274 Thomas J. Walsh 266 A. Victor Donahey 48 George F. Dorlot 19 Will Rogers 14 Owen D. Young 11 Carter Glass 6 John W. Davis 4 William G. McAdoo 3 Oscar W. Underwood 2 A. Lawrence Lowell 1...
Smith not only received the greatest number of total votes, but also obtained twice as many votes for first place as Hoover, his nearest rival. Dawes received four firsts, while Reed, Lowden, and Norris got one each. Curtis, Walsh, and Ritchie got no first places.