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Dates: during 1930-1939
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North Dakota's Senator Gerald("Munitions") Nye last week lectured the Senate on propaganda,suggesting that plenty of it was afoot today as in 1914-17 to draw theU. S. abroad. Said he: '"We cannot escape part in it if war comes to Europe.' Why does this thought persist and grow . . .? Norway, Sweden,Denmark, Holland, Switzerland and Spain stayed out of the last war. There were 55,000,000 people living in democracies at the very door of the war in Europe. If they could stay out . . . why must we even lend ourselves to the thought that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Stay-Outers | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...Catholic lay foundation started 15 years ago by Father John A. O'Brien, son of a rich Peoria landowner, was awarded to Thomas Mann (1937), Alexis Carrel (1936), Robert Andrews Millikan (1934), George Norris (1933). It was also awarded to less permanent giants on the national scene: Gerald Nye (1935), Frank Billings Kellogg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Glamor | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...take no poll to know that. And you'll hear more about Creston if Crestonman Frank Phillips is successful in his present quest for a rich oil pool beneath the famous bluegrass (and corn) fields of this area. Creston even had three daily newspapers when Crestonman Gerald P. Nye was behind this very desk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 17, 1939 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...sitting to consider extension, revision or junking of the present so-called Neutrality Act, important provisions of which expire May 1. To hear the Elder Statesman all but two of the 23 committeemen turned out.* Also present, though no committeeman, was North Dakota's Senator Gerald P. ("Neutrality") Nye, who took copious notes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Extend? Revise? Junk? | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...future appears exceedingly glum for all hide-bound isolationists. Although a majority of the students are averse to wars, particularly foreign conflicts; they seem quite willing to aid in stopping Hitler. In a word, youth seems ready to take another stabat saving Democracy despite the warnings of Senators Nye and Borah. The shop-worn argument of "splendid isolation" will have to be put on the shelf for some years to come...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "AUTRES TEMPS..." | 4/14/1939 | See Source »

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