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Approval of the often-beaten Norris amendment to abolish "lame duck" Congresses.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Minority Platform | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

Of the 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Minority Platform | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

Senator Norris talked seriously of having the Muscle Shoals act declared law despite its "pocketing." His argument hinged upon the nature of the adjournment Congress has taken. If it is a thoroughgoing adjournment in the Constitutional sense of the word, then the bill is dead. But if it could be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Estivation | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

If Senator Norris insists, the Supreme Court may have a nice stickler before it, though there is a precedent in the U. S. Court of Claims which would uphold the Muscle Shoals "pocket veto."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Estivation | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

Columns have been written about Hoover's strategy, his war record, his whirlwind courtship, his lowly birth, and even about his cooks, but not a word has been printed about his skill with rod, reel, and creel. It is understandable, pe haps, that the attention of the public might be...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MINNOW AND THE WHALE | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

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