Word: nye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mississippi. Democratic Senator Pat Harrison and seven Democratic Congressmen were renominated without opposition. Congressmen Ross Alexander Collins won renomination after a close contest. The Senate Slush Fund Committee held a special meeting at Fargo, N. Dak., to investigate charges that Chicago detectives were trailing its chairman, Senator Gerald Nye of North Dakota. One detective admitted that he had been assigned the task of looking up Senator Nye's "life" but insisted he was not trying to get something on him. Asked by newsmen if he thought the detective had been employed by friends of Illinois' Republican Senatorial Nominee...
...guide North Dakota's Senator Nye, chairman of the Senate committee, in scrutinizing the details of Mrs. McCormick's expenditures, there are no set rules on how much a Senate candidate should or should not spend for a seat. The size of a State, the intensity of the campaign, the breadth of appeal generally control the outlay. Obviously it costs less in the aggregate to reach Nevada's 32,000 voters than New York's 4,250,000, though the cost-per-vote is often much higher in small States than in large...
Originating in the House with St. Paul's Representative Melvin Joseph Maas, the attack on the Post Office Department's leasing system was carried forward in the Senate by North Dakota's Senator Nye and Wisconsin's Senator Elaine. Exclaimed Senator Nye: "The story at St. Paul smells to high Heaven. ... It is a story that possibly rivals the Teapot Dome and other naval oil reserve leases...
...chairman. His official excuse: "My time is so wholly occupied with my duties that it is utterly impossible for me to undertake additional tasks." Suspected reason: an unwillingness to take the lead in stirring up possible G. 0. P. campaign scandals like those of 1926. North Dakota's Senator Nye was named chairman in his place...
Meanwhile Nebraska's Senator Norris and North Dakota's Senator Nye demanded the dismissal of Secretary Bonner, charged him with being a "power man trying to cripple the commission so that it cannot inquire into these steals...