Word: nye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From camouflaged amplifiers high over-head a hollow voice suddenly began to croak: Senator Gerald P. Nye was saying that as soon as the witnesses had been sworn, cameramen would please retire. Three white-thatched witnesses stood up. The amplifiers carried the clunk-clunk-clunk of cameras along with the words of the oath. Flashlamps flickered like heat lightning...
...Morgan," began Senator Nye, "will you kindly state for the record what is your connection with J. P. Morgan...
Though they promptly introduced a bill changing several of the above Presidential powers from "may" to "must." Senators Nye, Clark and other members of the Congressional peace-by-isolation bloc were, in general, surprised and pleased by the Administration's concessions to their ideas of Neutrality. Meantime this week they planned to bring the nation's peace passion once more to white heat and whoop Neutrality through Congress by haling J. P. Morgan & Co. before their Senate Munitions Investigating Committee, setting out to reveal how much that firm's Allied loans and credits were to blame...
...doors with the explanation that scientific secrecy must be preserved. But as some 4,000 members of the American Dental Association met in New Orleans last week it was no secret that a low opinion was prevalent of the past, present and future of human dentition. Dr. Nye W. Goodman of Los Angeles declared that a great many people were "dental cripples." Dr. Samuel Rabkin of Cincinnati, who believes that wars and economic struggle are factors in tooth decline, showed photographs of Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon skulls proving that even those oldtimers had pyorrhea. On exhibit from Northwestern University...
...theory, Secretary of State Cordell Hull became the Acting President of the U. S. under the Act of Succession of 1886.* If solemn Secretary Hull had not already realized the gravity of his trust, he must have done so upon receiving a telegram from Senator Gerald Prentice Nye, as that North Dakotan sailed away with other Congressional junketeers to the Philippines (see col. 1), concluding: "I wish you every success and great strength in these trying hours upon your office...