Word: nay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nay voters, 23 were confirmed Isolationists who had also voted against the Lend-Lease Bill and against nearly every Roosevelt-sponsored measure relating to foreign policy. Against the Lend-Lease Bill they had argued that the U.S, was quite capable of defending itself alone. Now they argued that going-it-alone did not necessarily include creating a big, well-trained Army, certainly did not include sending arms to Soviet Russia, California's irreconcilable Isolationist, old (74) Senator Hiram Johnson, shouted in a throbbing voice: "I will not subscribe to the doctrine that you must be a Stalinite...
...there was no such debate, no such delay. Pennsylvania's Charles Faddis down-with-Japanned; Representatives who had fought improvements for Guam two years ago now paid their respects to the "contemptible, squint-eyed sons of the Rising Sun." The authorization went through by acclamation, with one lone Nay registered against it: the methodical, dutiful Nay of New York's left-wing Vito Marcantonio, who has voted against almost every bill for U. S. defense...
...held Mr. Jackson. Only 280 members of the House cared enough about the bill to show up last week for a vote to override the President's veto. Of the 280, 153 wanted to override, 127 said nay. The motion failed for lack of the required two-thirds. Representative Francis Walter, Democrat, of Easton, Pa. (ex-New Dealer who took up the bill when Goodman Logan died), promised to carry on next session. Prospects were that some compromise measure would be cobbled together...
...other hand, peoples, democratic or otherwise, who cannot adjust their institutions and choices to the needs of emergency decision are likewise doomed-for the opposite reason. If they cannot trust themselves to use the powers of their community for the common good-nay, the common life-they will not survive. Fear, distrust, suspicion-these are not the bases of vital power, States are not strong in proportion as their government is weak. Liberty is not secure in proportion as government has no power. Protection at home and abroad is the life of liberty. Protection against special groups at home...
...from history is that man never learns anything from history. Yet man has made great advances. The advances have come when he has invented a new tool, or a new discipline, or discovered and stated a law of Nature or of spirit, or when he has made improvements in nay of these tools, disciplines, or statements. Many of his tools are material, such as the wheel or the telephone, enabling him to use more effectively the external forces of Nature. Some of the tools are intangible, such as intellectual concepts; or partly intangible and partly tangible, such as symbols, enabling...