Word: nye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bank trans actions was $65,300 contributed by Edwin Cornell Jameson, New York insurance man (TIME, April 28, 1930 et seq.). Of this sum Bishop Cannon had failed to account to Congress for $48,300. Last week the Senate Committee, chairmanned by North Dakota's young, belligerent Nye, met to receive a report from Mr. Manly and hear other witnesses. The Bishop was abroad, visiting Paris and London. He cabled a protest to the com mittee in which he claimed the inquiry was "a purely personal attack by a vindictive Virginia Democrat [Senator Carter Glass] and a Boston Representative...
...London Bishop Cannon tried to explain that the funds passing into his personal account had been checked out again and delivered to his anti-Smith committee. Remarked Senator Nye of the Manly disclosures: "When all the information is put together it will clearly show actual diversion of campaign money to the private accounts of Bishop Cannon...
Leader of the move to impeach Governor Horton was no State legislator at Nashville. He was Democratic Congressman Edward Hull Crump, 65, the white-haired, bushy-browed boss of Memphis, a city which Senator Nye on one of his slush-fund investigating trips characterized as "the Philadelphia of the South." Boss Crump, who rose from harness dealer to Mayor of Memphis and boasts of 14 election certificates, controls the Shelby County delegation at Nashville (three Senators, eight Representatives). He dictated the elections of the Speakers of the House and of the Senate. Tennessee has no Lieutenant Governor. If Governor Horton...
...findings. Since this phase of the inquiry will touch the public pocket nerve, it is the phase for which professional foes of the "Power Trust" on Capitol Hill have most eagerly waited. Eminent in this group is Iowa's loud, intransigent Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart. Like Senators Norris, Nye, Howell, La Follette et al., he is ready to seize upon the Commission's disclosures and therefrom argue for stricter Federal regulation of interstate power. As the Commission's hearings started Phase II last week in a schoolroom atmosphere of charts and maps, who should be called...
Announcement has been made that Francis Abbot Goodhue '06, President of the International Acceptance Bank, New York, will be Head Marshal of the twenty-fifth reunion of the Class of 1906 during Commencement Week. Robert Armory '06 will be chairman of the Directory Committee; William Howard Nye '06 is secretary of the class and Chairman of the committee compiling the class report; and Theodore Train Whitney. Jr. '06, is Chairman of the Financial Committee...