Word: nye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a bill by North Dakota's Nye authorizing the U. S. to settle its naval oil scandal claims against Pan-American Petroleum and Richfield Oil of California...
...cost the Treasury $4,241 when six Senators (North Dakota's Nye, Nevada's Oddie, Illinois' Glenn, Arizona's Ashurst, South Dakota's Norbeck, Montana's Walsh) spent eight Christmas holidays investigating the Everglades as a national park possibility. Double railroad fare was paid for all so they could have individual Pullman drawing rooms or compartments. Two houseboats were hired for five days at a cost of $1,687.50 (auditors first thought the boats had been bought). Observations from a blimp cost $75. A .set of 14 photographs for each Senator added $168 to the bill...
...both charged with violations of the Federal Corrupt Practices Act. It was the same charge that Representative Tinkham had made last year; but Bishop Cannon had defied the Caraway Lobby Investigating Committee and walked out (TIME, June 16, 1930). Miss Burroughs had obdurately refused to testify before the Nye Senate Campaign Funds Committee which then threatened to cite her for contempt. Last week's charges, the ten counts of which could provide an aggregate of ten years in jail and $21,000 in fines, were made by the District of Columbia Grand Jury, which under District Attorney Leo Rover...
Other facts the Nye Committee brought out last week...
...Declared caustic Senator Glass as the hearings closed temporarily: "From the nature of the evidence adduced, it is not to be wondered that a physician gave the Bishop a certificate to the effect that it would endanger his life to explain his bank account to the Nye committee...