Word: nye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Morgan died in 1936 with the Nye investigation ringing throughout the land, he might have been written off as the international banker who got the U.S. into. World War I. But with U.S. industry, which Morgan & Co. had helped build to greatness, contributing on an unparalleled scale to another war, with Lend-Lease giving to Britain more aid than the bankers 29 years ago dreamed possible, his place in history had changed...
Pearson's script was definitely blue-pencilled. Out of the text was removed a charge that Senators Wheeler and Nye have opposed the impending trial of 33 alleged conspirators, a disclosure that Willkie is writing a book condemning the State Department for "selling democracy short in North Africa," and an unfavorable reference to taxwizard Beardsley Ruml. It was also made known that Senator Wheeler is chairman of the committee that handles radio legislation in the Senate...
Dakota's Senator Gerald P. Nye: part of his house was flooded twice. Reported Mrs. Nye: "The Senator was pretty angry...
Immediately moderate isolationists, including Taft and Vandenberg, as well as the old diehards, Johnson and Nye, flocked to their yellow banner. By ignoring the Administration's announced distinction between political commitments, treaties and economic arrangements as legislation, they give away their intentions to block post-war lend-lease agreements. Nye, swollen with the arrogance of aroused fury has even gone so far as to boast that "there isn't a ghost of a chance of a military-political alliance" after the war, between the United States and Great Britain...
When he heard the news from excited Navy Secretary Frank Knox, all that Franklin Roosevelt could utter was an astonished "No!" In their living rooms, on the golf courses, driving in their cars, tens of thousands of profane Americans said: "Why, the yellow bastards!" Said the Hon. Gerald Prentice Nye, senior U.S. Senator from North Dakota, about to address an America First rally in Pittsburgh: "It sounds terribly fishy...