Word: norrisism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ Representative Hays B. White of Kansas explained to the President the purpose of the Norris-White resolution (a proposed amendment to the Constitution) which would bring a President into office and a Congress into session within two months of their elections. (At present, a President takes office four months...
The bill before the Senate was the Norris Bill for Government ownership of Muscle Shoals?a bill drawn and supported by Senator Norris, Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture. But the bill discussed was the Underwood Bill for leasing the Shoals to private operators (TIME, Dec. 15)?a bill...
The Underwood Bill had the floor as an amendment by substitution for the Norris Bill. While things were so disposed, no less than 35 amendments were proposed to the Underwood Bill which was itself an amendment. All these had to be disposed of before a vote could be taken on...
Greed. Eric Von Stroheim is the boy that used to do the dirty work, the villain. He acts no more. As a director, he still believes in dirty work. Greed is taken for Frank Norris's gold-digging story, McTeague, and reeks with realism; Von Stroheim relies on reeking pictures...
Percy Jenkins '24, Thomas Campbell '24, Lewis Gordon '24, C. L. Todd '26, J. W. Hammond '25, M. A. Cheek '26, A. W. Samborski '25, A. G. Rogers '25, F. S. Hill '24, E. L. Brown '24, J. E. Toulmin '25, Philip Spalding '25, Leonard Larrabee '24, R. G. Norris...