Word: nye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charies Harlan Johnston '27 of Des Moines, Iowa, was elected President, and Ralph Nye '26 of Ogden, Utah, was elected Vice-President...
...Discussed whether or not Gerald P. Nye, appointed to the Senate by the Governor of North Dakota, was legally entitled to be seated...
...State and district offices" shall be filled by the executive, says a law of North Dakota. Accordingly the governor of that state, to fill a vacancy in the Senate, appointed Gerald P. Nye as Senator, although North Dakota statutes do not ordinarily mean Congressional offices by the term "State . . . offices." Worst of all the governor did not consult his legislature, as the Federal Constitution provides, in making the appointment...
...loose constructionists, in a revival of the oldest political battle in America, a battle which has had for participants the greatest personalities of American history, a battle which is, in fact, as old as the Constitution itself. Tuesday the strife subsided--temporarily. The loose constructionists had won. Gerald P. Nye became the "second youngest" Senator...
...case of Gerald P. Nye, appointed by the Governor of North Dakota, the overt phase of the case is legal, not political. It is before a committee on privileges and elections headed by Senator Goff of West Virginia. Mr. Nye was appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Ladd. The Governor has the power by state law to fill by appointment temporary vacancies in state offices. Is a U. S. Senator a state officer? Senator Goff thinks not. The matter will have to be thrashed out on the floor of the Senate. Mr. Nye is reckoned...