Word: nye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nye Sirs...
That neutrality legislation looks too much at past causes and not at traces of future ones, was the accusation of James P. Baxter, Professor of History, in a talk before the Anti-war Group at the Union last night. It is his belief that bills such as the Nye-Kvale bill are based on the erroneous assumption that our entrance into the world war was caused by carrying too much trade with one of the belligerents...
...Court proposal as opposed all his liberal program, moved the genteel Times to use its equivalent for a four-letter word: "This statement is not in accordance with demonstrated facts." The Times and others pointed at 20 or more loyal Democratic Senators, at liberals such as Norris, Wheeler, Nye, at many pro-Roosevelt newspapers which now oppose the Court proposal. Senator Edward R. Burke of Nebraska, leader of the pro-Court wing among Senate Democrats, declared: "If the President thinks that . . . those 'defeatist lawyers'.. . are the only ones ... he is sadly mistaken. The most bitter opposition...
...plausible analysis of the U. S. Road to War in 1914-17 (TIME, May 6, 1935 et seq.), able Writer Walter Millis two years ago pointed out what looked to four U. S. Senators-Nye, Clark, Vandenberg and Bone-and to many a plain citizen, like a plain road to peace. If it were true that the U. S. had fought in the World War not to make the world safe for democracy but to save the frog-skins of its merchants and moneylenders, then the gloriously sure and simple way for it to stay out of the next...
...their opinion that he was too closely connected with conservatism and entrenched wealth. Half the Senators who voted against him are now dead or retired, but of those who remain the great majority are today opposed to President Roosevelt's Court plan: Borah, Glass, Connally, George, Hiram Johnson, Nye, Wheeler. Vice-versa, Senators Ashurst and Pat Harrison, both now pro-Roosevelt, were then both pro-Hughes, and Senator Robinson was paired in his favor. Only a few, notably Hugo Black and Bob La Follette, were against Mr. Hughes then...