Word: nye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Again Nye. Soon the names of Wilbur and Kelley were joined in the headlines by that of ambitious young Senator Gerald Prentice Nye of North Dakota, Chairman of the Public Lands Committee, investigator of the second oil scandals (1928). Senator Nye summoned Field Chief Kelley for an hour's conference after which he declared: "I can't help but be impressed by the spirit moving Mr. Kelley. I think he is entitled to a hearing. His charges do not go to the door of Secretary Wilbur. There is a door to which his objections lead and that door should...
...records had been searched and pilfered. Last month the Senate Committee held hearings at Chicago at which Mrs. McCormick and her political counsel, Attorney General Oscar E. Carlstrom of Illinois, offered to submit what they claimed was proof that Committee agents had a hand in these melodramatic antics. Chairman Nye, after questioning his agents privately and convincing himself of their probity, categorically denied Mrs. McCormick's "slanderous insinuations," refused to hear her evidence, adjourned the hearings. Mrs. McCormick rushed into print with a fresh batch of accusations to the effect that Chairman Nye had run out just when sensational...
...dares republish the charges of Ruth Hanna McCormick, Republican senatorial nominee in Illinois, against the Senate Slush Fund Committee may be prosecuted for "wilful and malicious libel." Notice to that effect was served last week upon the Press by Senator Gerald Prentice Nye of North Dakota, the committee's chairman, and three of his colleagues (New York's Wagner, Washington's Dill, Vermont's Dale. Missouri's Patterson did not sign the edict...
...While admitting that there might be truth in one individual's alleged prophecy that when this private investigation of myself was finished 'Nye would be selling papers on the depot platform at Fargo, N. Dak., or grinding a hand organ for a dancing monkey,' my answer to the question as to what I shall do about it is only this...
...Chairman Nye departed on a vacation to Wisconsin. Nominee McCormick took to the stump with the claim that the Slush Fund Committee episode had won her 50,000 Illinois votes. Whether it had or not, it certainly won her the sympathy of Citizen Calvin Coolidge who said in one of his syndicated articles...