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Norris (GEORGE WILLIAM United States)

GEORGE WILLIAM, United States Senator from Nebraska, NORTH and the Philadelphia and Reading, the Stony Creek, and the Pennsylvania railroads; 16 miles N. W. of Philadelphia. Here are a Friend's Home for the Aged, Charity Hospital for the Insane, Masonic Temple, street railroad and electric light plants, waterworks, National banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. The borough has pipe-covering and steel-casting works, shirt factories, machine shops, glass works, carpet mills, iron works, hosiery, cigar factories, wire, rolling, cotton, and woolen mills, etc. Pop. (1910) 27,875; (1920) 32,319.

NORRKÖPING, a town of Sweden, ranking next in manufactures after Stockholm; at the head of the Bravik born in Ohio in 1861. By means of river Motala, which connects Lake working on farms and by teaching he graduated from Baldwin University, Ohio, and later from the law school.

Admitted to the bar in 1883. In 1885 he moved to Nebraska and was appointed judge of the 14th Nebraska District in 1895. He resigned in 1903 to become the successful Republican candidate for Congress. During his ten years in the House of Representatives he led the insurgent wing of the Republican party against Speaker Cannon, and finally succeeded in having the House pass rules greatly limiting the speaker's powers. In 1913 he was elected to the Senate, and re-elected in 1919. In the Senate he was opposed to the declaration of war against Germany, and likewise opposed to the Treaty of Versailles which closed the war.