Word: nebraskans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feel that I am worthy of having my name mentioned with his in the connection that it is used, yet I want you to know of my appreciation of the honor you do me both in associating my name with his and in mentioning my name as a prominent Nebraskan...
...appointment. Twenty-seven Senators voted against his confirmation. Their complaint was that he was not a real wheat farmer, that he knew nothing about wheat farming, that he was out of sympathy with Federal aid for those who did produce this crop. His most bitter opponent was his fellow Nebraskan, Senator George William Norris, whose candidacy for the Presidency he did not take seriously last year. Confirmation of the Board did not materially clear up all the uncertainties which confront this new Federal agency. In Washington the feeling persisted that the Board had no set policy. Senators and Congressmen...
...sovereign design, imbued with all his prowess and pride. To hear it criticized was torture to him. And, in Nebraska not only had he faced charges of ineptitude and duplicity, but, unlike the commission which had picked the bold Goodhue design from among ten other plans submitted, many Nebraskans were blunt, blind, interpreted everything in financial terms. If Architect Goodhue had been alive last week he would probably have been miserable again. For the Nebraska capitol, now all but completed, was again being impugned. The charges lodged with the state legislature were identical in source and similar in substance...
...Minority Platform itself, people said that the voice was the voice of La Follette but the hand was the hand of Senator George W. Norris, the deep-eyed, thin-lipped Nebraskan who is guarding the elder La Follette's mantle until the son is sere enough to wear it. They guessed so partly, perhaps, from the difficulty the young man sometimes experienced shifting his document back and forth to facilitate gesturing; and from the unreality of the gesture which the young man made while saying, "We denounce." People who denounce in their own words do not need to study...
...more Nebraskan, George Wiliam Norris, Republican, is, with the possible exception of Senator Borah of Idaho, the foremost liberal in the U. S. Senate. Nearly a quarter century ago, his state sent this farmer lawyer from the plains to the House of Representatives. He was and is homely, unimposing, with bristling hair over a broad brow and keen deep-set eyes; he had and has courage, industry and a ready tongue. First in the House (1903-13), later in the Senate (1913-31) he bitterly fought favoritism and oppression in all its varied forms. Gilbert M. Hitchcock, Democrat, his fellow...