Word: nye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...themselves "progressives," the Democrats might, had they wished, have gained command of the Senate. But the Democrats preferred to let the G. O. P. stand responsible for the Senate's deeds this session. The five "progressives"- "Wisconsin's LaFollette and Elaine, North Dakota's Frazier and Nye, and Minnesota's unique Farmer-Laborite Shipstead" had, prior to the Senate's "organizing," asked the orthodox Republicans for assurance that this session would see a "final vote" on farm relief, anti-Labor injunctions and U. S. policies in Latin-America. Senator Curtis, chief Republican, had replied with...
...party (Farmer Labor). His popularity might distress a less determined man, for besides him the Senate numbers just 48 Republicans (nominally) and 47 Democrats. But Senator Shipstead can tell a Progressive hawk from a Republican handsaw. He signed up with four of the only-nominal Republicans?Nye, Frazier, Elaine, LaFollette?to demand action on farm relief, Federal injunctions and Latin American policies...
Republican leaders were concerned, disturbed, even vexed by the Borah statements. He is a Republican of much influence. Lately intimate with the strategically potent insurgent Senators (Nye, Norris, McMaster, Brookhart, et al.), Senator Borah even looms, not as a candidate, but as a possible disputant of the G. O. P.'s presidential choice. G. O. P. leaders muttered that Prohibition will not be in the party platform. They wished Senator Borah would stop talking...
Senator Gerald P. Nye, aggressive progressive from North Dakota, told the President that he was wrong. He warned him that the contests over seating the Senators-elect, William S. Vare of Pennsylvania and Frank L. Smith of Illinois, were going to consume many valuable weeks of the Senate's time; that a jam of legislation would result...
...then the "baby" of the Senate. This was in the days before such youngsters as Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin, 32, and Nye of North Dakota, 34, were elected...