Word: nye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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North Dakota's Senator Gerald P. Nye suffered slight leg bruises when his automobile jumped the highway near Edgeley after ramming a drove of pigs...
...Chairman of the Senate Munitions Committee and leader in the fight for neutrality legislation was (1 Carter Glass, 2 Hiram Johnson, 3 Gerald P. Nye, 4 Maury Maverick, 5 Robert F. Wagner...
Starting their campaign against militarism in education with a commendable bang, the meeting went on record as supporting the Nye-Kvale Bill for abolishing compulsory military training in public institutions. At the present time it is hard to believe that the R.O.T.C. could grow into a warlike Prussian order, fomenting national "honor" and international hate. But there is no logical reason to discriminate against students at government colleges, making them bear arms against their will. Indeed the popularity of the training is enough to justify removing the compulsory feature. But at any event the solid work of the Peace Committee...
Only one dissenting voice was heard yesterday morning as 500 anti-war strikers resolved in favor of the Nye-Kvale bill to abolish compulsory R.O.T.C. in Government controlled colleges...
...advancing arguments in favor of governmental control of the arms trade, Senator Nye asserted that "no power on this earth is lending more directly and positively to the spirit of war than is our country...