Word: nye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator McFarland: Senator, what sort of legislation do you propose, to end these abuses you allege? Senator Nye: I hope it is not going to be necessary to resort to legislation...
Like most gossips, Jimmie Fidler, onetime extra, onetime editor of Screenland, does not underestimate his own importance. As soon as he broke with CBS, he prepared an official statement, lugubriously entitled "Radio Censorship Unbearable," sent it to FCC Chairman J. Lawrence Fly, and Senators like Wheeler & Nye. His chief gripe: CBS wouldn't let him rate pictures (according to a chromatic scheme running from "No bells" for rotten to "Four bells" for a smash) the way he wanted to. Moaned...
...Songs by Captain Pearl Nye, a jovial, bearded, retired canal-boatman; a cook in Livingston, Ala. named Vera Hall; a fake blind man and his fake gypsy wife from Texas, who in 1909 sang for Mr. Lomax the now famous Whoopee Ti yi yo, Git Along Little Dogies...
...Senator Gerald P. Nye...
...Milwaukee, Senator Gerald Nye called Mr. Roosevelt's speech "a fire-alarm chat," spoke of "the mad rush of interventionists to frighten the American people into . . . further involvement...