Word: nye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crackpots have really begun to lay the foundations of a lasting world peace. If you elect us we will not change any of that, either. But,' they whisper, 'well do it in such a way that we won't lose the support even of Gerald Nye or Gerald Smith [or] the Chicago Tribune...
...said the President, he just wanted to remind the voters that, if Republicans should gain control of the Senate, his "old friend," California's 78-year-old, rock-ribbed isolationist Hiram Johnson might become chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, and North Dakota's isolationist Gerald P. Nye would head the powerful Appropriations Committee...
...Gerald Nye's henchmen hurriedly tried to pooh-pooh this. But North Dakota is one state in which Tom Dewey needs little added help. Observers agree it is solidly Republican; the latest Gallup poll showed Tom Dewey leading...
Meanwhile, North Dakotans saw more of Gerald Nye than they had at any time in the last six years, as he fretfully stumped the backwoods. But the grain growers and stockmen, who decide North Dakota elections, stayed away. Lynn Stambaugh, a rough and tumble speaker, forthrightly hammered hard at Gerald Nye's stubborn isolationism...
...tight, three-cornered race on Nov. 7, anything could happen-and the consummation devoutly wished for all over the U.S. was the defeat of Gerald Prentice Nye...