Word: north
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Borah, of course, was stanch at Senator Johnson's side. So was North Dakota's Gerald ("Neutrality") Nye. They declared they had a minimum of 34 votes, perhaps as many as 60. Thirty-four Senators exercising "every honorable and legitimate means" at their command could filibuster Neutrality far into August's dog days...
Peace Passion. For a dozen years the U. S. had enjoyed peace with placid satisfaction. In this new pre-war world peace became an emotional issue. As the anti-war chorus swelled, Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota, emerging from nine years of obscurity as a minor radical in Congress, led the shouting. The Senate gave him carte blanche and $50,000 to investigate the part which munitions makers and their bankers had played in implicating the U. S. in World...
...underestimate your neighbors to the North. We are fine people. Visit our great country and you will soon agree with...
...Japanese-conquered China last week was a suave, subtle Oriental named Wang Ching-wei. Seven months ago this Chinese statesman was one of the powers at Chungking, China's temporary capital; last week he was reported about to become Japan's No. 1 puppet at Peking, seat of the North China Government. From Chungking to Peking these days is a longer distance ideologically than geographically, and the fact that Mr. Wang, elder revolutionary, onetime collaborator with Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, one of the old "Big Three" in Chinese affairs,* has made the ideological as well as geographical trip was quite...
...SINGAPORE EXILE MURDERS-Van Wyck Mason-Crime Club ($2). In Singapore to grab a steel formula wanted by several countries, Hugh North of the U. S. Army Intelligence steps into a murderous international mess. Excitement and exotic ladies...