Word: nye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...payment on defaulted dollar bonds. Last week Cuba witnessed a surprising combination of those two commonplaces. At the head of a protective committee two U. S. Senators marched into the Presidential Palace in Havana for no other purpose than to dun. The committee's chairman was Senator Gerald P. Nye; its counsel, Senator Burton K. Wheeler...
Last December, President Roosevelt announced that State Department studies of neutrality legislation might soon give him something to say on the subject. Four months later the State Department was rudely roused from its studies when Senators Gerald Nye, Bennett Clark & friends, fired with a passion for peace as a result of their investigation of the pipsqueak U. S. munitions business, popped out proposals for mandatory, two-sided embargoes on arms, loans, credits. Panting from White House to Capitol, Secretary of State Hull persuaded President Roosevelt to take a firm stand for discretionary legislation, persuaded the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
Chairman McReynolds took with him also a prime trading point to force the Senate peacemen to accept the President's compromise. Ardently did he and a majority of the House desire to lay down an absolute embargo on loans & credits to warring nations. Except for the Nye-Clark bloc, the Senate was flatly opposed to such action. Therefore, threatened Chairman McReynolds, let the Senate peacemen accept the President's compromise or he would write a loans & credits embargo into their resolution, thus killing off neutrality legislation at this session...
Your note following my letter in TIME of May 13 on your and Senator Nye's thesis that munitions-makers cause wars asks me to consider that the French firm of Schneider-Crcusot secretly helped to finance Adolf Hitler and then propagandized at home for increased armament to defend La Patric. Don't you think that you are indulging in that fallacy in argumentation known as ignoration of the clench? You maintain-at least Senator Nye does (perhaps you only imply)-that munitions-makers cause wars: you prove only that they sell munitions...
...Administration's efforts to displace him through the Chavez candidacy and subsequent contest (TIME, May 20). This week, as Senator-Designate Chavez reached Vice President Garner's desk, after marching down the aisle to take his oath, the only Progressives present-Senators La Follette. Norris, Johnson, Nye and Shipstead-ostentatiously rose, stalked out of the chamber, returned when the ceremony was over...