Word: nye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gerald Prentice Nye of North Dakota, who has changed from a young smalltown editor with a plumber's haircut into a classy-cut newspaper hero. No constructive legislator, he has made the Campaign Expenditures Committee, the chair of which fell to him by accident, into a vehicle for constant personal publicity. Married, he likes to dance in his off hours...
...candidates ''without exception," Secretary Lucas testified that-at the behest of Nebraska regulars who have long opposed Insurgent Norris-he had spent $4,000 of his own money in having a cartoon, a circular letter and a pamphlet of anti-Norris editorials disseminated throughout the state. Senator Nye had previously pried out the facts in the printing plant of Charles I. Stengle, onetime Brooklyn Congressman, now editor of the National Farm News. Director Lucas, unrepentant, defended his action by declaring that Senator Norris was not a member of the Republican party, but a Democrat: "He opposed President Coolidge...
...long career of James John Davis as a Federal jobholder was punctuated last week by a 33-minute lapse into private citizenship. Resigning as Secretary of Labor, the Senator-elect from Pennsylvania was delayed that length of time at the Capitol while North Dakota's Senator Nye challenged his eligibility. The charge: more than $600,000 was spent to elect the ticket on which Mr. Davis ran. The Senate's prompt vote (58-0-27) to seat Mr. Davis gave Pennsylvania its full elected Senate representation for the first time in nearly four years. As Senator Davis took...
...months of vacation to take up the Nation's business again. All the Senators-elect (Hastings, Bulkley, McGill, Brock, Carey, Williamson) except James John Davis and Dwight Whitney Morrow were being introduced right & left by friends. Mr. Davis' right to his seat had been challenged by Senator Nye's committee for investigating excessive campaign expenditures. He refused to join the Senate until cleared. Mr. Morrow's credentials were late in arriving from New Jersey. The Vice President rapped smartly with his gavel; Chaplain ZeBarney Phillips began to pray: "May passion for the Commonwealth consume all dross...
...frame" (up)=to fake; to prearrange surreptitiously. Senator Nye's insinuation apparently was that Nominee McCormick herself had her wires tapped, her office rifled, then blamed the Committee...