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  Gerald Nye
Gerald Nye was born in Outagamie County, Wisconsin, on 19th December, 1892.
Nye was a member of the Special Committee on Public Lands and Surveys that investigated the Teapot Dome Scandal.
Nye was strongly opposed to the United States government exporting arms to both sides in the Spanish Civil War.
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  Gerald Nye - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gerald Prentice Nye (December 19, 1892–July 17, 1971) was a United States legislator and political activist, serving in the U.S. Senate from 1925 to 1945.
Nye was instrumental in the development and adoption of the Neutrality Acts passed between 1935 and 1937.
Nye, a Freemason and a Presbyterian, again gained prominence in 1941 for his severe criticism of Hollywood film producers, whom he accused of peddling pro-war propaganda to the masses.
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 Gerald Nye   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Gerald Nye was born in Outagamie County, Wisconsin, on 19th December, 1892.
Nye was elected to Congress in 1926 and served on the Committee on Public Lands and Surveys.
Nye was accused of betraying the Nonpartisan League and it marked the beginning of a long political feud with Langer.
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 The Ultimate Gerald Nye - American History Information Guide and Reference
Gerald Prentice Nye (December 19, 1892–July 17, 1971) was an United States legislator and political activist, serving in the U.S. Senate from the 1920s to the 1940s.
Nye worked in journalism as a young man, serving as first editor and later owner of several newspapers.
Nye entered politics as a progressive Republican in 1926, filling a vacant senatorial seat for North Dakota.
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 W.S. Townsend v. Gerald L. Nye and Sharon V. Nye (07/01/2003)
The Nyes contracted with EHC for the construction of their home and the contract included monetary allowances for kitchen cabinetry and flooring for the home.
Here, the Nyes argue that as a direct consequence of Snyder's breaches of duty, EHC did not finish constructing their home and they were unable to secure refinancing at a lower interest rate.
The Nyes have failed to establish that Snyder used EHC merely as an instrumentality to commit a fraud on the Nyes.
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 Educators and Students - Conducting Research
James P. Goodrich Papers: Goodrich was a director of the American Relief Administration who went to Russia in 1921-23 to inspect the ARA's famine relief operations.
William P. Mac Cracken Papers: One of the most important figures in the early development of commercial aviation was not an inventor or the head of a airline.
Gerald P. Nye and Verne Marshall Papers : Anti-war feelings were very strong in the United States during the 1920s and early '30s.
www.archives.gov /education/history-day/turning-points/resources-nlh.html   (1930 words)

  
 Hackett-Freedman: Peter Nye
Nye, 47, has won national acclaim for his compelling and surprising views of San Francisco and the surrounding region.
Nye was recently featured in a major landscape survey exhibition and book, Rediscovering the Landscape of the Americas, which originated at the Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe, NM.
Nye studied at the Yale Summer School of Music and Art and received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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 Nye Investigation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Detzer reported a conversation she had with George Norris in 1933 about Gerald Nye leading the investigation into the international munitions...
Nye Committee, after its Chairman, Senator Gerald P. Nye (Republican from North Dakota).
Gerald P. Nye's investigation of the munitions industry in 193 4-35.
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 U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Historical Minutes > 1921-1940 > "Merchants of Death"
Nye suggested that Wilson had withheld essential information from Congress as it considered a declaration of war.
Democratic leaders, including Appropriations Committee Chairman Carter Glass of Virginia, unleashed a furious response against Nye for “dirtdaubing the sepulcher of Woodrow Wilson.” Standing before cheering colleagues in a packed Senate Chamber, Glass slammed his fist onto his desk until blood dripped from his knuckles.
Although the Nye Committee failed to achieve its goal of nationalizing the arms industry, it inspired three congressional neutrality acts in the mid-1930s that signaled profound American opposition to overseas involvement.
www.senate.gov /artandhistory/history/minute/merchants_of_death.htm   (395 words)

  
 Nye Committee, Neutrality Acts, Quarantine Speech, Destroyer Deal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
As Senator Nye, an avowed isolationist, interpreted the Committee's mandate, he concluded that the way to stop war was to take away the opportunity for private gain.
One accompanying feature of the Nye Committee findings was an increased United States public sentiment for withdrawing from world affairs and returning to America's characteristic isolationism.
Despite a resurgence of isolationism and the limited results of the Nye Committee, however, little impact was made on American involvement in the international arms trade.
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 Bil Nye   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Naomi Shihab Nye 1: Naomi Shihab Nye is a poetrypoet and musicsongwriter 7: Nye has edited many anthologies of poems, for audienc 13: Today Shihab Nye lives in San Antonio, Texas with her family.
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 Nye - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Nye, Bill (1850-1896), American humorist, journalist, and lecturer, born Edgar Wilson Nye in Shirley, Maine.
The Senate’s Nye Committee inquiries of 1934-1936 reinforced popular perceptions that U.S. involvement in World War I had been a blunder.
Nye, Gerald P. The origin of the controversy may be traced to August 14, 1937, when Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota introduced a resolution in the U.S....
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 William Langer Papers
Although he still had major enemies within the party, William Lemke and Gerald P. Nye among them, Langer went to the 1932 NPL convention with high hopes of winning the nomination for governor.
The NPL endorsed Langer for Gerald P. Nye's seat in the U.S. Senate.
Nye defeated Langer in the Republican primary election, after which Langer filed as an Independent.
www.und.edu /dept/library/Collections/Langer/og19.html   (2315 words)

  
 NARA - Educators and Students - Conducting Research
James P. Goodrich Papers: Goodrich was a director of the American Relief Administration who went to Russia in 1921-23 to inspect the ARA's famine relief operations.
William P. Mac Cracken Papers: One of the most important figures in the early development of commercial aviation was not an inventor or the head of a airline.
Gerald P. Nye and Verne Marshall Papers : Anti-war feelings were very strong in the United States during the 1920s and early '30s.
archives.gov /education/history-day/turning-points/resources-nlh.html   (1938 words)

  
 William Langer Papers, Box 1-106
William Langer to Geral P. Nye and Lynn Frazier.
William Langer to Gerald Nye and Lynn Frazier.
Gerald P. Nye to "Whom It May Concern." March 30, 1933.
www.und.nodak.edu /dept/library/Collections/Langer/og19p1.html   (4787 words)

  
 "War Plots" and Politics
Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota was the first to get his breath after the President had given the lie direct to the "boob" responsible for the story that he (Roosevelt) had spoken of the Rhine as our new defensive frontier.
Nye was one of the five Senators through whom the story of what went on at that conference leaked out, but he was not responsible for the application of Stanley Baldwin's phrase to the Roosevelt policy.
With Nye stands Bennett Clark of Missouri, a more consistent and able isolationist, who dreams or pushing Roosevelt into a Wilsonian position and riding past him into the White House.
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 America First: the Anti-War Movement, Charles Lindbergh and the Second World War, 1940 - 1941
Senator Nye in the same period called the British empire “the very acme of reaction … and exploitation.”[28] As late as July of 1941, with the Nazi invasion of Russia already begun, Robert Maynard Hutchins could still write that there were more victims of aggression before1939 than after.
Nye wanted the federal reserve system replaced with a bank that would “issue bonds equivalent to the total of our outstanding farm mortgages.
Nye made this statement in a talk to a Pennsylvania college audience in April 1940, shortly after the Germans had overrun Denmark and Norway.
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 Nye, Gerald Prentice - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
NYE, GERALD PRENTICE [Nye, Gerald Prentice] 1892-1971, U.S. Senator (1925-45), b.
As Senator, he headed the committee that investigated (1934-36) the role played by U.S. businessmen in the American entrance into World War I. An outspoken isolationist, he fathered the Neutrality Act.
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Nye, Gerald Prentice" at HighBeam.
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 Senator Milton R. Young Photograph Collection - Image, Institute for Regional Studies, Fargo
Group portrait of North Dakota politicians taken at the home of Gerald P. Nye, Chevy Chase, Maryland at the North Dakota State Society picnic.
Bottom row: Senator Gerald P. Nye, former Governor, Congressman and Secretary of Interior, Fred G. Aandahl.
P.S. This is the only picture I have ever seen that included both Senators Nye and Langer"--Typed note with print.
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In his first fictional work, Nye explores the challenges of trying to “maintain a moral compass” while consumed by the high stakes of policymaking.
Nye says his book is a "story of pathology" and affords an insight into the world of Washington insiders who are not only looking out for the best interests of their country, but also for the best interests of their own careers.
Following his reading, Nye opened the floor to questions from the audience, which included communications expert Gerald Rafshoon; Middle East specialist Judith Kipper of the Council on Foreign Relations; Cameron Kerry, brother of the former Democratic Presidential nominee; and E.J. Dionne, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
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 Heil to the Chief
John F. Kennedy was a donor; his future brother-in-law Sargent Shriver was a founder, as were Gerald Ford, Potter Stewart, and Kingman Brewster.
In fact, Nye criticized the New Deal from the Left for its timorousness.
Nye had made his name as the scourge of the “merchants of death” who profited from the disastrous U.S. entry into the First World War, and he always feared a replay.
www.amconmag.com /2004_09_27/review.html   (2070 words)

  
 Sept. 4, 1934: 'Merchants of death'=The Hill.com=   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
To lead the seven-member special committee, the Senate’s Democratic majority chose a Republican: 42-year-old North Dakota Sen. Gerald P. Nye.
The Senate cut off funding after Nye blundered into an attack on the late Democratic President Woodrow Wilson.
Nye suggested that Wilson had withheld essential information from Congress in 1917 as it considered a declaration of war.
www.hillnews.com /senate_minute/092904.aspx   (401 words)

  
 Dakota Datebook
Gerald Nye moved to North Dakota in 1915 when he was 23 years old and became publisher of the Billings County Pioneer and then editor of the Griggs County Sentinel-Courier.
Many in the Senate didn’t want to seat Nye, however; he was a member of the non-partisan league, which was a bit too radical for many of the more conservative senators.
Nye argued that because of sheer distance and superior strength, no European country seriously threatened America.
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 Nye Committee . United States . 1934 . Gerald Nye . 1936 . World War I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Gerald Nye Nye Committee studied the causes of United States involvement in World War I between 1934 and 1936.
There were seven members of what was officially known as "Senate Munitions Committee".
Gerald Prentice Nye December 19, 1892–July 17, 1971 was an United States legislator and political activist, serving in the United...
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Gerald Prentice Nye (1892-1971) was an United States legislator and political activist, serving in theU.S. Senate from the 1920s to the 1940s
Nye, like his father before him, supported the political positions of
Having been an editorial supporter of the agrarian reform movement, Nye suported legislation for agricultural price supports.
www.en-cyclopedia.com /wiki/Gerald_P._Nye   (335 words)

  
 Warhogs: A History of War Profits in America
He points to the inevitable confusion of rapid war mobilization, the administrative complexity of determining reasonable costs and profits, and the ever-growing need for greater and more intimate cooperation between the military and its suppliers as the technology of warfare became more complex.
Readers might want to compare Brandes’ dismissal of the Nye Committee’s methods as "eerily close to the methods of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy" and the Nye Report as "pure demagoguery" with Matthew Ware Coulter’s recent study.
Nevertheless, Brandes credits the Nye Committee and the Vinson-Trammell Act of 1934 for the general success of excess-profit taxation and renegotiated contracts during World War Two.
www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /genocide/reviewsw36.htm   (664 words)

  
 Agropub - Nettside for økologisk landbruk
De nye reglene blir enklere og vil gi mulighet for en viss fleksibilitet når det gjelder regionale klimaforskjeller og forskjeller i produksjonsbetingelser.
I Norden hvor det kun er ett økomerke for hvert land er ikke dette noe aktuell problemstilling, men det er ei problemstilling i land som Tyskland og Nederland som har ei hel rekke ulike økomerker.
Gerald Altena regner med at det kommer til å bli flere runder i tida som kommer ettersom Debio og økomiljøet i EU får sett nærmere forslaget til ny økoforordning.
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 U.S. Senate election, 1944 - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Democratic and Republican gains cancelled each other, and there was no change in party balance.
Democrats defeated three Republican incumbents: John A. Danaher (R-CT), Gerald P. Nye (R-ND), and James J. Davis (R-PA).
Republicans took open seats in Indiana, Missouri, and New Jersey (where a Democrat had been appointed to a Republican vacancy), and defeated Guy M. Gillette (D-IA).
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 The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum
Simultaneously, the Library had redoubled efforts to locate and collect documentation pertaining to the Hoover Era.
In addition to the papers of Herbert Hoover, the manuscript holdings include those of Lewis Strauss, Gerald P. Nye, Felix Morley, Clark Mollenhoff, Robert E. Wood, Westbrook Pegler, and Laura Ingalls Wilder, among others.
More that 150 collections make the Library an important center for the study of conservative journalistic thought, agricultural economics, famine relief, atomic energy, and governmental reorganization.
www.hoover.archives.gov /visiting/welcome.html   (498 words)

  
 Gerald P. Nye, "Is Neutrality Possible for America?" in Tomorrow in the Making, edited by John N. Andrews and ...
Gerald P. Nye, "Is Neutrality Possible for America?" in Tomorrow in the Making, edited by John N. Andrews and Carl A. Marsden (New York: Whittlesey House, 1939), pp.
The record now on file contains overwhelming evidence of their activities, and the evidence is derived in great measure from their own letters.
There is also evidence of their deliberate and methodical purpose to wreck disarmament conferences.
www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/interwar/nye.htm   (4623 words)

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