Word: norrisism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The way the ship subsidy is being sidestepped by the Simmons and Norris farm bloc bills brings back that historic scene in "Penrod" when all the boys ran away from beautiful Marjorie Jones, to lavish their attentions on the disingenuous little out-of-town girl, Fanchon Gelbraith. President Harding's...
Most of this rudeness comes from those unsympathetic landsmen of the upper Mississippi valley. Enough pledges to defeat the subsidy have been secured by the newly hatched Senator Brookhart of lowa, whose precocity is something unprecedented. To be sure that good, old-fashioned "children should be seen and not heard...
Senators Lodge and Watson have developed an affection for the farmers, and with their loyal henchmen of the "old guard farm bloc", are now trying to outbid the westerners. But since the only effort to which the progressives can point with pride is an amendment to change the date of...
Chairman, Harrison Gardner of Boston; secretary, Robert Paul Bullard of Melrose Highlands; treasurer, Francis Kernan Jr. of Utica, New York; assistant treasurer. Francis Sherburne Hill of Brookline; Union, Charles Benjamin Barnes Jr. of Boston; music, Morgan Hovey Harris of Chestnut Hill; patronesses, John Jackson Lee of West-wood; invitations. Clay...
Governor Norris denied the extreme view that the System controls the volume of credit, calling attention to the facts that it has no dealings with the speculative markets and no direct contact with the general public; that two-thirds in number of the banks of the country have no discount...