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	George William Norris - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Norris was elected to the House of Representatives as a Republican in 1902.
		Norris was elected to the United States Senate by the Nebraska legislature for a term which began in 1913, one of the last Senators so elected as the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratifed that year, changed the method of their election to that of direct statewide vote such as is employed today.
		Norris opposed entry into World War I and he advocated the idea of converting government-built munitions factories and their related facilites into factories which would be used for peaceful purposes.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /George_Norris (287 words)

	George William Norris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Norris was elected to the United States Senate by the Nebraska legislature for a term which began in 1913, one of the last Senators so elected as the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified that year, changed the method of their election to that of direct statewide vote such as is employed today.
		A political progressive, Norris supported this reform and also the conversion of state legislatures to the unicameral system, which was eventually implemented in 1934 in Nebraska (but in no other state as of 2005).
		Norris opposed entry into World War I and he advocated the idea of converting government-built munitions factories and their related facilities into factories which would be used for peaceful purposes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_William_Norris (364 words)

	4Reference \|\| William Norris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He is famous for taking on IBM in a head-on fight and winning, as well as being a social activist who used Control Data's expansion in the late 1960s to bring jobs and training to inner-cities and disadvantaged communities.
		Norris first entered the computer business with just after World War II, when his team of US Navy cryptographers formed Engineering Research Associates to build scientific computers.
		Norris continually purchased new companies to fold into CDC, and eventually returned to the peripheral market in the 1970s.
	www.4reference.net /encyclopedias/wikipedia/William_Norris.html (778 words)

	HENRY NORRIS NORRIS - LoveToKnow Article on HENRY NORRIS NORRIS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		His father, Henry Norris, was a grandson of Sir William Norris, who commanded the royal troops against Lambert Simnel at the battle of Stoke in 1487.
		The Norris monument, with figures of Lord and Lady Norris and their six sons, is in St Andrews Chapel in Westminster Abbey.
		Norris, who was known as foul-weather Jack, was a member of parliament from 1708 until his death.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /N/NO/NORRIS_HENRY_NORRIS.htm (737 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - George Norris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Norris was born July 11, 1861, in Sandusky County, Ohio, and educated at Baldwin University (now Baldwin-Wallace College) and the Northern Indiana Normal School.
		During this period Norris was the leader of the group of congressmen who, by effecting a change in the House rules in 1910, ended the arbitrary rule of the Speaker of the House in a House revolt against Joseph Gurney Cannon.
		Norris favored federal regulation of public utilities and led a campaign that culminated in 1933 in the passage of the act that he wrote, creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761554336__1/George_Norris.html (398 words)

	William Norris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		William Norris is a graduate of Drew University and holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College.
		William Norris's first novel is a portrait of the Mahoneys as they appear in 1997, then working back through twenty-five years, filling in the rich, deep hues of the life that has shaped their relationships.
		Norris lays bare the secrets that mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters keep from themselves and each other, and ultimately tells a hopeful story about the bonds of flesh and blood and shared experience.
	www.contemporarypoetry.com /dialect/resources/wnorris.html (371 words)

	NORRIS, GEORGE WILLIAM. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A liberal Republican, Norris secured (1910), through an alliance of insurgent Republicans with Democrats, the passage of a resolution that reformed the House rules and wrested absolute control from the speaker of the House, Joseph G. Cannon.
		Norris was read out of the Republican party and became (1936) an independent.
		He was author (1932) of the Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution, which abolished the “lame duck” session of Congress and changed the date of the presidential inauguration.
	www.bartleby.com /aol/65/no/Norris-G.html (244 words)

	Document Title (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		George William Norris is considered by some political scholars to be the preeminent example of an effective United States Senator.
		Norris quickly became an influence in south central Nebraska, serving three terms as prosecuting attorney of Furnas County and seven as judge in Nebraska's Fourteenth judicial district.
		Norris moved to McCook, Nebraska, where, in 1902, he was elected to the House of Representatives.
	info.neded.org /stathand/parttwo/norris.htm (339 words)

	William Norris -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In 1967 Norris attended a seminar for CEOs where (United States civil rights leader (1921-1971)) Whitney Young, head of the (Click link for more info and facts about National Urban League) National Urban League, spoke about the social and economic injustices in the lives of most young fl Americans.
		Another CDC project that Norris championed was (Ancient Athenian philosopher; pupil of Socrates; teacher of Aristotle (428-347 BC)) PLATO, an (Click link for more info and facts about online) online teaching and instruction system developed at the (Click link for more info and facts about University of Illinois) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
		In the 1980s this left CDC primarily as a (A rigid magnetic disk mounted permanently in a drive unit) hard disk manufacturer, and their series of (Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers) SCSI drives were particularly successful.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/william_norris.htm (854 words)

	Norris/Beaty Family History - pafg35 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		William Norris [Parents] was born on Aug 23 1800.
		Allison Norris was born on Dec 13 1829.
		William Kenneth Norris was born on Jan 22 1948.
	www.nyx.net /~dbeaty/pafg35.htm (357 words)

	William N. Priddy
		William Norris Priddy, the oldest son of James Priddy, and called Norris by his family, left his home at Westford, NY in 1854 and moved to Madison, WI and then moved to Baraboo, Sauk Co., WI Jan. 1, 1855.
		William was a minister, as was his father and his grandfather, and he held meetings in the upper story of his home.
		William Priddy's 40 acres was divided as the town grew and was known as the Priddy's Addition to Bloomer Village.(The part of Bloomer which was on the east side of Duncan Creek) There is a Priddy Street and a Catlin Street in that part of Bloomer.
	users.ipns.com /priddy/cepriddy/william.html (771 words)

	Norris/Beaty Family History - pafg22 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		William Norris was born on Aug 23 1800.
		Joseph Norris III was born on Oct 15 1805.
		Elizabeth Norris was born on Jun 9 1823.
	www.nyx.net /~dbeaty/pafg22.htm (179 words)

	eBook Author William Norris
		Reporter and aviation expert William Norris went on an international odyssey to establish the impossibility of Loewenstein's death being anything but murder.
		Norris is at the top of his class." -- Sydney Kirkpatrick, author of A Cast of Killers.
		William Norris certainly knows how to entertain readers with his flair for presenting real-life stories and SnowBird is no exception.
	www.mindlikewater.com /ebook_catalog/profiles/norris_william.html (1032 words)

	George William Norris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Norris was born in 1861 in Ohio and after one year at Baldwin University in Ohio, he enrolled in Indiana State Normal School at Valparaiso.
		Norris is credited with planning the Tennessee Valley Authority, which provided flood control and created electricity in the region drained by the Tennessee River.
		Norris wrote and promoted the Nebraska constitutional amendment that created the Unicameral Legislature in Nebraska, which is unique among the 50 states.
	www.nde.state.ne.us /SS/notables/norris.html (563 words)

	William Norris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The university developed most of the system on a CDC-1604 machine driving graphics terminalss of their own design.
		This later moved proved particularly wise, it was also during the 1970s that Cray left to form his own company, and quickly drove CDC out of its leadership position in the supercomputer market.
		They were particularly harsh in blaming his "social programs" for their problems, although any connection is difficult, if not impossible, to find.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/william_norris (809 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: The Man Who Fell From the Sky by William Norris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The task William Norris stumbled into is daunting: determining the cause of a spectacular death that had occurred fifty-six years earlier.
		Just the same, as Norris says, he was a man, and he may have been murdered.
		Norris is a fine writer, a competent journalist, and a talented investigator."--r.
	www.fictionwise.com /ebooks/eBook26012.htm (2167 words)

	George William Norris Biography / Biography of George William Norris Biography Biography
		George William Norris (1861-1944), U.S. congressman and senator, authored the 20th Amendment to the Constitution and sponsored numerous pieces of Progressive legislation.
		In 1913 Norris was elected to the Senate.
		Norris was the cosponsor of the Norris-LaGuardia Act (1932), which outlawed labor contracts that made union membership a condition of employment and drastically limited the use of injunctions in labor disputes; and the Norris-Rayburn Act (1936), which made the Rural Electrification Administration permanent.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-george-william-norris/index.html (601 words)

	George William Norris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		George Norris belonged to the tradition of Progressive senators characterized by Robert M. La Follette and Robert F. Wagner.
		Norris ushered through Congress the bill creating the Tennessee Valley Authority, and Chairman Arthur Morgan later acknowledged his contribution by naming the dam at Cove Creek in his honor.
		Norris remained devoted to the TVA, and authored the Rural Electrification Act of 1936.
	newdeal.feri.org /bios/bio5.htm (198 words)

	Nancy BARREL b 1779 Ireland m NORRIS
		According to NORRIS fam hist by Harry Alexander DAVIS, my anc is a William NORRIS who m Nancy BARREL.
		William NORRIS supposed to have been from Chesterfield-Darlington District, SC.
		The William that I found in Calhoun was War of 1812 vet & wife was born Ireland but maiden name was Nancy ADAMS & children did not incl my anc.
	genforum.genealogy.com /barrell/messages/134.html (174 words)

	William Brown Norris, USA, class of 1824 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		William Norris was born on May 20, 1803 in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania.
		However, a loss of his voice forced Norris to abandon that profession; he then moved to Lewistown and became engaged in the iron industry.
		After several years in this trade, Norris was a surveyor from 1848 to 1852 and was a surveyor for the port of Philadelphia.
	chronicles.dickinson.edu /encyclo/n/ed_norrisW.htm (155 words)

	Anderson University Athletics: Hall of Fame: William "Bill" Norris
		Bill Norris, more familiarly known to friends as “Hopi,” took his took his Anderson University athletic experience to California to coach for more than 32 years at the high school level after graduation in 1960.
		Norris came to AU from Sand Springs, Okla., and became a popular Raven athlete in both football and baseball.
		Off the field, Norris was elected to the Student Council, Men’s Senate and president of Sachem Club.
	www.anderson.edu /athletics/hof/norris.html (268 words)

	William C. Norris Papers
		During World War II, Norris was commissioned as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy and was assigned to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, where he was involved in the research and development of communications and computing equipment.
		Norris served as vice president and general manager of the Univac division of Sperry Rand Corporation from 1956-1957.
		Norris' professional activities were closely related to his work at CDC; researchers should use the Norris Papers in conjunction with the William C. Norris Executive Papers series (Series 9) in the Control Data Corporation Records (CBI 80).
	www.cbi.umn.edu /collections/inv/cbi00164.html (951 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		William Henry Norris (William Roland 1) was born on 24 Apr 1861 in
		She was the widow of the late William Henry Norris, was a splendid woman, and had a large number of relatives and friends in the county.
		Lester Norris was born on 5 May 1910, died on 22 Feb 1990 in Scott Co TN at age 79, and was buried on 24 Feb 1990 in Carson Memorial Cemetery.
	www.angelfire.com /folk/tennessee (694 words)

	WILLIAM MATTHEW NORRIS Monaro 1850 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		WILLIAM MATTHEW NORRIS came from Camden with teams in 1850, and resided on Manaro till his death in 1913 at the age of 78.
		Norris, who conducts a local motor agency, is a well-known citizen, being connected with many public movements and institutions.
		I.H. Norris, of Leichhardt, at the age of 58 years, she had been in ill health for some time past.
	www.cooma.nsw.gov.au /monaropioneers/norriswm.htm (3520 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		William Norris, 20, of 828 Canal St., Alexandria, Marcus Parker, 19, of 308 Bayou Drive, Alexandria, and Howard Bullions, 43, of 105 Kelly St., Alexandria, were arrested at 58 Meyer St.
		Police said it appears Norris and his brother, whose name was not released, got into an argument and exchanged gunfire.
		Norris was arrested on charges of discharging a firearm and disturbing the peace by fighting.
	www.thetowntalk.com /html/1F0ED75E-3EBF-4E62-AE9F-7EC0BA5EAB05.shtml (260 words)

	Abigail Barto/Bartoo and William Norris-New York
		William was the son of Henry Norris b.
		William and his mother are buried at Smithville Burial Grounds, possibly called Loomis Cemetery, Chenango County, New York.
		I have old family records for the family of Henry and Mary Norris and would like to hear from any descendants of William Norris and Abigail Barto/Bartoo.
	genforum.genealogy.com /barto/messages/351.html (138 words)

	William Norris
		John M. Norris, who, in November, 1891, was in his seventy-fifth year, and who was born and raised in the township, and has resided all his life within a mile of where his father and grandfather lived and died.
		Among the earliest settlers of the township was William Norris, grandfather of Mr.
		Nathan, the oldest, was the patriarch of the Norris family....During the greater part of his life he served as Justice of Peace, County Commissioner, %c...
	www.sc-families.org /tree/I88.html (360 words)

	The Badger Game by William Norris
		Best-selling nonfiction writer William Norris turns his hand to comedy with a Mafia boss trying every trick in the book to seize the Presidency of the United States.
		In this entertaining story, William Norris has brought together a colorful cast of characters and mixed them together.
		William's timing is impeccable and his humorous writing is at times reminiscent of the good old British farce.
	www.writeronlinebooks.com /book/badgergame.htm (163 words)

	NORRIS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		GrGrandfather William Coleman Norris was the son of Rigdon Norris and Martha Coleman, daughter of Isaac Coleman, born in 1768, and wife Nancy.
		GrGrGrandfather Rigdon Norris was born ca 1791 in Wilkes Co., Georgia, the son of William Norris and Nancy Watkins.
		Rigdon Norris who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he did not obtain any written discharge when he was mustered out of service at Milledgeville, Georgia in the year 1814 or if he did receive a written discharge he has lost it.
	members.cox.net /hhorn/norris.htm (1964 words)

	CHAPTER V: Computers -- Deception by Control Data Corporation
		When Norris was offering a million operations per second CYBER computer to the Soviets, the run-of-the-mill Soviet technology was in the order of several thousands of operations per second, and that was on copies of imported equipment.
		If multinational businessmen like William Norris were honestly mistaken in their information or somewhat shaky in their logic, then perhaps they could be forgiven.
		William Norris only sees what he wants to see, hears what he wants to hear, and presumably speaks from these limited impressions of the world.
	reformed-theology.org /html/books/best_enemy/chapter_05.htm (2531 words)

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