Word: nye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voice cannot be heard it might as well not exist. Hence General Johnson, whose NRA did not begin teething until after Congress adjourned last June, was troubled for months by the complaints of old guard businessmen, but not by the caterwauling of Congressmen. To be sure. Senators Borah and Nye wrote him protesting that NRA was driving small businesses to the wall and turning trusts loose on a career of price fixing. To be sure, they appealed to the President and were given to understand that the Federal Trade Commission might be given power to protect small businessmen, to restore...
...Senator Nye used warmer language: "If what seems to have been the policy of NRA is continued the plunderers may well adopt 'The Last Round-Up' as their theme song and trample under heel whatever remains of independent business and make the consumer a mere slave...
General Johnson's hot answer loosed hotter Senatorial wrath. Reiterating his charges of monopoly and ruin for small businesses, Senator Borah boomed. "When those things are remedied I will cease my efforts and not till then." And Mr. Nye cried eloquently: "Nero may rant and roar, but all the browbeating he may resort to will not destroy, though it may delay, knowledge of what NRA policy is doing ... to the end that the plunderbund may enjoy larger monopoly...
...legislation which would allow no citizen to keep more than $1,000,000 of his income, or to receive bequests totaling more than $5,000,000, or to possess an estate of more than $50,000,000. This proposal sounded almost Capitalistic compared to what young Senator Gerald P. Nye, as bleak a personality as the plains of his North Dakota, told reporters he wanted to do. Far from permitting an individual to receive $1,000,000 in income, he would prohibit any man from accumulating more than $1,000,000 capital. "At the last session," said he, "I proposed...
...replace crippled "Governor" and superannuated "Idaho," notified Oil Administrator Ickes that big petroleum producers were squeezing little ones, that while the oil code increased costs to producers $125,000,000 a year, $486,000,000 in price increases were being passed on to consumers. With North Dakota's Nye he went to the White House with another complaint. He felt that NRA was injuring the small businessman. The President offered both Senators seats on a new supervisory board, which both refused. It was then agreed that some anti-trust teeth would have to be fitted into the Blue Eagle...