Word: nye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About the Senate flew reports that Governor John S. Fisher of Pennsylvania would appoint arch-lobbyist Joseph R. Grundy to the empty seat. Warned Senator Nye of North Dakota: "I give notice here and now that the appointee of Governor Fisher will need be one far removed from the Mellon-Grundy-Fisher machine before I shall vote for him to be seated. We cannot damn one ill-smelling Pennsylvania machine without damning the other...
...Rejected (43-37) a motion of North Dakota's Nye discharging the Immigration Committee from considering a resolution to postpone National Origins. ¶ Voted $150,000,000 for expenditures under farm relief bill...
Last week the Great Question on many a farm throughout the land was: Will there be federal relief for this year's crops? Wheat men, dubious of such relief this season, pricked up their ears at a suggestion from North Dakota's Senator Nye that the U. S. should buy up 50 or 100 million bushels of surplus wheat, ship it to famished China as a gesture of goodwill...
...their only reason a partisan desire to put President Hoover in a hole. As in 1924, they found themselves playing catspaw for the Progressive Republicans. New York's Copeland, for example, said he would vote for the debenture plan, but "hold his nose" while he did so. Shifter Nye. North Dakota's Nye (Progressive) had declared against the debenture plan. Last week, under threats of political reprisals from his state, he said he would now support it. He added lamely a hope that it would never be used. "The People." The new Kansas Senator, Henry Justin Allen, made...
...Brookhart, Blaine, Borah, Frazier, Howell, Johnson, Dill, La Folle"?. Shipstead, Nye, Wheeler, all come within the category. There is little intellectual or moral fibre in any of them. They pother, trim and hedge...