Word: norrisism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brigadier Hiram Johnson, fidgeting for the fray, demanded longer battle hours, suggested night fighting for a change. Suddenly, as if to dispel any notion that they were employing the famed desultory tactics of Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus ("Cunctator"), the Insurgents with almost the entire Democratic army, executed a quick flank...
The Sheppard Amendment reached no vote, became no law. It was referred to the Judiciary Committee, appeared unlikely to reappear during the present Congressional session. But it precipitated a storm of dispute among Drys as well as Wets. The Wets, of course, flayed the idea as a further encroachment on...
The decency debate was precipitated by Senator Bronson Cutting, Harvard-educated New Mexico Republican. He maintained that Customs officials are not qualified to pass upon literary imports. A recent example of the Customs censor ship was the barring of Voltaire's Candide, for centuries a classic, yet officially considered...
Last week, in the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Philadelphia, the Kirkpatrick decision was reversed and Broker Norris exonerated. More, the U. S. was flayed in a decision which said: "It appears that while the legislative department of the Government has deliberately and intentionally made the purchaser of...
The Treasury Department declared it would carry the case of Broker Norris to the Supreme Court of the U. S. to determine finally whether liquor-selling guilt does end at the customer's front door.