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Word: nye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President gave him and his fellows the Silver Purchase Act. When the Recovery Act was under debate he succeeded in inserting a provision on another of his favorite subjects?forbidding NRA codes to "permit monopolies or monopolistic practices"?and then ultimately voted against the measure. He joined Senator Nye in attacking NRA as a promoter of monopoly at the expense of "the little fellow" and the President gave him the Darrow board to investigate his complaints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Great Opposer | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

...High Agnes" haircuts, trailed by admiring country cousins. Dicing, dancing and cutting went on hour after hour until the sun once more lit up the tall towers and gleamed on the broad river at Memphis. Thus ended, after 120 hours, the big annual bust of a municipality which Senator Nye of North Dakota once called "the Philadelphia of the South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES 6? CITIES: Good Abode | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

AUSTIN GOLDSBOROUGH PATTERSON BARBOUR HALE REED BORAH HASTINGS ROBINSON CAPPER HATFTELD (Ind.) CAREY JOHNSON SCHALL COUZENS KEAN STEIWER CUTTING KEYES TOWNSEND DAVIS LA FOLLETTE VANDENBERG DICKINSON McNARY WALCOTT FESS NORBECK WHITE FRAZIER NORRIS GIBSON NYE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 16, 1934 | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

...Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.* And Pat Harrison, no longer cast as a gadfly, had to play the heavy, as Chairman of the Finance Committee had to try to hold in check a Senate suddenly eager for taxes, taxes, more faxes. Sometimes the Progressives led by La Follette, Nye and Norris harried him with plans to soak the rich, to pile up surtaxes and estate taxes. Sometimes Couzens was after him to soak not the rich alone but all taxpayers in order to pay another small fraction of the huge expenses of the New Deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Senate Rewrite | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

Without record vote, the Senate approved a resolution by Senators Gerald P. Nye, (R) N. D., and Arthur Vandenburg, (R) Mich., authorizing appointment of a committee of seven by Vice-President John N. Garner to conduct the investigation...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, (COPYRIGHT 1934) | Title: Salients in the Day's News | 4/13/1934 | See Source »

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