Word: norrisism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator George William Norris, who, more than anyone else, may be called leader of insurgent Republicans, has grown stoical during his 13 years of high office. Inirritable Mr. Norris philosophically decided at the close of the last Congress that the details involved with the chairmanship of the Senate Agriculture Committee...
Meanwhile Senator Norris, insurgent Nebraskan, contemplates again the worthwhileness of political life, the betrayals, the corruption, the callow honors. He recalls the "treason" his Progressive friends played him some years ago when they backed the Kenyon packer bill instead of his own packer bill. That day he collapsed in the...
"Just keep your shirt on, and tell me where you got that amortization amendment," said Senator Norris, shaking his insurgent finger.
"Senator Capper is the author of more bills that he hasn't read than any other member of this body," bellowed Mr. Norris. . . .
A chapter called "Wasted Land" goes back to the last appearance of the Midwest's last purple people, the Dalton boys of Coffeyville, Kan. ... "A tall, harshly beautiful young man" (W. J. Bryan) comes out of Nebraska to be the Silver Knight; pallid Altgeld governs Illinois; Andrew Carnegie'...