Word: nye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year's strike, the second of its kind, will take place simultaneously in colleges throughout the country under the auspices of the National Student League, the Student League for Industrial Democracy, and other losser organizations. Telegrams of endorsement were sent to the Committee by Senators Gerald P. Nye, Bonnett P. Clark, Homer Bohn, and J. S. Pope...
...Senator to appear before a committee to laud a tycoon-witness was sufficiently impressive. For a group of inquisitors virtually to apologize for ever having thought anything ill of a tycoon-witness was even rarer. When Senator Byrnes finished speaking, Senator Nye, who chairmans the Munitions Committee, hastily interposed...
Snapped a spokesman: "Details of that agreement have never been revealed and remain unavailable." Few days later, after the Hitler bombshell at Berlin (see below), North Dakota's irate Gerald Nye, chairman of the U. S. Senate's munitions quiz, thundered: "The munitions makers have at last talked Germany into scrapping the Treaty of Versailles so they can sell their wares...
...audience was on its feet, cheering, clapping, stamping. A professor of mathematics put two fingers in his mouth, whistled. From the rear came a rebel yell. Not for minutes did the audience quiet down sufficiently to thunder through a resolution asking Senator Nye's Munitions Investigation Committee to dig into the Hearst Press...
...Munitions Committee could not consider the request immediately because Missouri's plump Senator Bennett Champ Clark last week tumbled down a flight of stairs in his home, was too sore to go to Capitol Hill. Senator Nye saw ''no reason to question the motives of Mr. Hearst...