Word: norton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Collecting 218 names for her first petition took Mary Norton 17 days. Record for similar petitions was 100 names in a day. Last week, Mrs. Norton was so conscious of the difficulty of her task that she sent a wire to Indiana's Congresswoman Virginia E. Jenckes, asking her to make a special trip from home to sign her name. Mrs. Jenckes flew East but she arrived at the Capitol in time only to witness the celebration of an astounding victory...
...were in so much of a hurry to put their names on the petition that Speaker Bankhead, after calling hopelessly for order, was forced to suspend regular business. Whenever a Southerner or a Republican joined the line, supporters of the bill cheered. Forty minutes after the session opened, Mrs. Norton had 140 names on her list. Ten minutes later it had grown...
Majority Leader Sam Rayburn of Texas had vowed he would not sign the petition. His was the 203rd name on the list. Cried Mrs. Norton: "It's all over now!" Eight Louisiana Democrats followed Mr. Rayburn. Oregon's Nan Honeyman was the 217th, leaving the honor of completing the list to Louisiana's Robert Mouton. Then Mr. Mouton stepped over to Mrs. Norton, gallantly kissed her hand...
Disappointed that it was too late for her signature to be added to the list, Mrs. Jenckes took the next plane for Indiana. Meanwhile, in a seething, shouting mob of Congressmen, Aunt Mary Norton accepted congratulations on setting a new House record (2 hr. 22 min.) for committee discharge petitions and on the No. 1 achievement of her political career...
...Norton got her nickname because she is called Aunt Mary by her niece, Marion McDonagh, who works under her as the Labor Committee's clerk. Last week Aunt Mary's big afternoon happened also to be Niece Marion's 28th birthday. Said she: "I just can't do any more work today." Although Mary Norton was equally elated she was nevertheless very much aware that her chef-d'oeuvre in Congress, the Wages-&-Hours Bill, was still far from enactment. Even if the House passes it, which it may well do this month, the Bill...