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...have said many harsh things about banks and big bankers I suppose, like many others. But the frankness and candor of Mr. J. P. Morgan and his associates before the Nye-Clark committee won my ungrudging respect. It has become quite fashionable amongst politicians, at least too many of them, and young writers to ascribe our entry in the War to any reason but the true one-the U. S. could not afford, did not dare, see Germany win. . . . FRED G. HUNTINGTON Attorney at Law Billings, Mont...
Sirs: Since when does TIME stoop to mudslinging? Any belittling of the Nye inquiry forces the average citizen to conclude: They can't buy- Gerald Nye. WOLFRAM HILL St. Paul, Minn...
...general public see the true implications of a "Senate investigation." The power of such an investigation is unquestioned and rightly so, but the higher a power, the greater the tendency to abuse it. The body of the Senate and the Press, but especially TIME'S account of Nye v. Morgan, both editorially & pictorially shows how a person or group may be pilloried on the rack of Senatorial aggrandizement...
Jeering at the Nye Committee's findings, Senator Connally cried: "It has discovered that some international woman of the streets, lurking at the corner of an alley, enticed Uncle Sam down the alley and got him into...
Next day lean, keen Chairman Nye uprose defiantly in the Senate, dismissed the Connally attack as "gutter English," repeated and documented his charge against Wilson and Lansing, cried: "I am wholly unashamed of my course...