Word: nye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain's George V, the Senate Committee investigating the Munitions Industry hurriedly rang down its curtain amid great diplomatic confusion last September (TIME, Oct. 1). Well knowing that the U. S. munitions business was small fry compared to the foreign business, the Senators headed by North Dakota's Nye were not ready, however, to abandon such a popular subject. Last week, therefore, they rang their curtain up again and set out on a new tack. Their purpose was to avoid international complications and confine their efforts to getting something on U. S. munitions makers. Ranged before them for examination were...
...Chairman Nye, as usual, proved a heavy-handed cross-examiner and got little information without aid from the Committee's investigator, Stephen Raushenbush. Little more effective was plump Senator Bennett Champ Clark, who got everybody's dander up by expressing extraneous personal opinions, by taking the attitude that all the witnesses were trying to put something over on the Committee. Best of the Senatorial inquisitors was Michigan's Senator Vandenberg. Yet with all the dramatic material offered by a munitions inquiry, the best dirt the Committee could...
...Munitions makers, Senator Nye announced, had met with Secretary of Commerce Hoover and conspired to block or render impotent the 1925 attempt of the League of Nations to draft a covenant restricting the international traffic in arms. The arms makers retorted that at the request of the State Department, Secretary...
...Johnson's greatest services to the President was as a buffer for criticism. Even as he was bowing out of the picture, his enemies-and he had many -took many a resentful parting shot. "It ought to have happened nine months ago!" cried North Dakota's Senator Nye, who had quarreled with the General about NRA hardships on small businessmen. "Military man that he was," grumbled old Clarence Darrow, whose three NRA reports marked the start of the reorganization movement, "he went at it like an Army mule driver and when he reached the end of his rope...
...committee feels that it has thus far only scratched the surface," declared publicity-loving Chairman Nye. To the "rather sordid picture" of the munitions industry painted so far by his committee he proposed to add the steel companies sometime in December...