Word: nye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...look at the U. S. armament business. Its members had been reading books, looking at magazines and listening to lectures, and on the theory that gunsmiths and powder-makers instigate wars to sell their goods, the Senate created a special investigating committee and put slim, sleek-haired Senator Nye of North Dakota in charge...
...summer long Senator Nye and his committee raked and scraped material together. Nothing was too old, nothing too far-fetched to be of possible service. Fortnight ago public hearings began. Last March FORTUNE pointed out that, though the U. S. was far from innocent in the game of international armaments, U. S. munitions makers were very small fry indeed compared to such vast purveyors of war materials as France's Comité des Forges and Schneider-Creusot, Germany's Krupp, Britain's Vickers-Armstrong, Czechoslovakia's Skoda. First companies called before Senator Nye's committee...
...reported to him that Latin Americans, sensitive about bribe-taking, would cancel all U. S. trade contracts unless the Senate investigation was conducted more privately. Chilean Minister of War Emilio Bello Codesido announced that no U. S. bids would be considered in the next purchase of aviation material. Senator Nye, after a conference with Secretaries Hull and Roper, tried to put a better face on his inquiry by explaining: "The committee deeply regrets that a false impression may have been created, and that . . " the opinions of these agents seem to have been construed as necessarily reflecting the opinion...
...what Senator Nye and his committee were trying to prove was that, though the du Ponts disparage the munitions side of their businesses, they are not at all anxious to let it lapse, frequently encourage the same kind of unscrupulous sales tactics used by their smaller U. S. and greater European confr...
...Casey of the du Pont company kept the stamp on his desk and had sole responsibility as to which of the du Fonts' vast bales of incriminating documents deserved the "Poison Label" and which did not. Donald Y. Wemple is a minor employe of the Nye Committee...