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Word: nye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have said many harsh things about banks and big bankers I suppose, like many others. But the frankness and candor of Mr. J. P. Morgan and his associates before the Nye-Clark committee won my ungrudging respect. It has become quite fashionable amongst politicians, at least too many of them, and young writers to ascribe our entry in the War to any reason but the true one-the U. S. could not afford, did not dare, see Germany win. . . . FRED G. HUNTINGTON Attorney at Law Billings, Mont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 3, 1936 | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

Sirs: Since when does TIME stoop to mudslinging? Any belittling of the Nye inquiry forces the average citizen to conclude: They can't buy- Gerald Nye. WOLFRAM HILL St. Paul, Minn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 3, 1936 | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...looked on from the outside. Hitherto the elders had kept silent while the youthful crusaders monopolized front pages with a revision of U. S. history which made those elders out to have been deplorable bunglers, duped by propaganda or impelled by greed. But when ardent young Senator Nye called the Wartime President of the U. S. a liar, the pent-up wrath of Woodrow Wilson's onetime associates burst forth in dancing fury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Graveyard Parade | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

Jeering at the Nye Committee's findings, Senator Connally cried: "It has discovered that some international woman of the streets, lurking at the corner of an alley, enticed Uncle Sam down the alley and got him into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Graveyard Parade | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

Next day lean, keen Chairman Nye uprose defiantly in the Senate, dismissed the Connally attack as "gutter English," repeated and documented his charge against Wilson and Lansing, cried: "I am wholly unashamed of my course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Graveyard Parade | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

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