Word: nye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Borah, of course, was stanch at Senator Johnson's side. So was North Dakota's Gerald ("Neutrality") Nye. They declared they had a minimum of 34 votes, perhaps as many as 60. Thirty-four Senators exercising "every honorable and legitimate means" at their command could filibuster Neutrality far into August's dog days...
Peace Passion. For a dozen years the U. S. had enjoyed peace with placid satisfaction. In this new pre-war world peace became an emotional issue. As the anti-war chorus swelled, Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota, emerging from nine years of obscurity as a minor radical in Congress, led the shouting. The Senate gave him carte blanche and $50,000 to investigate the part which munitions makers and their bankers had played in implicating the U. S. in World...
Senator Gerald ("Neutrality") Nye of North Dakota shouted: "I defy anyone to attack the soundness of this general [transactions tax] principle...
...exports, travel by U. S. citizens, dealing in combatants' securities, etc., etc. Passage of the Bloom bill by the House would mean little, even in diluted form. In the Senate a band of 21 isolationists led by Idaho's Borah and North Dakota's Nye promised to fight this Roosevelt brand of Neutrality all summer if necessary...
...American people deluge such persons as Senators Nye and Borah with letters pleading that we take ourselves out of this unspeakable business? Why do we not keep our Congressmen awake nights by the continuous earnestness of our appeal...