Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under that sky, political lineups went by the board. The battle lines were drawn around a confused, mishandled, four-year-old Neutrality Act. To Washington the President summoned the Congress to meet on September 21 in special session. He prepared to ask them to repeal the major section of that act-the provision compelling him to declare absolute embargoes on the sale and shipment of arms and munitions to all countries...
...break in his silence was a phenomenon of World War II (which he painstakingly refused to call a World War), an evidence of its great impact upon the U. S. It was also the end of his protective pretense that Charles Lindbergh is just a private citizen. By his act last week Hero Lindbergh deliberately undertook a spokesman's, if not a leader's, responsibility...
...American Farm Bureau Federation demanded prompt repeal of Neutrality Act embargo provisions, substitution of cash-&-carry basis, with profits restricted...
...Communications Act of 1934 and by international agreement it is illegal, without proper authorization: 1) to intercept radio communications not intended for the general use of the public, and 2) to discuss them in print, on the air, or any other way. In the last few weeks the air has fairly crackled with important, and usually coded, admiralty radio messages-Germany calling all ships home but its submarines; Britain ordering a Mediterranean blockade; U. S. Navy telling its personnel the score. These and others appeared in the U. S. press, incurred no Federal crackdown. But one of them was also...
Next day President Roosevelt's neutrality proclamation put the lid on any more shipments until Congress should revise the neutrality act. To planemakers this meant little. In taking over $100,000,000 worth of foreign orders in recent months, they had put a clause in their contracts requiring foreign buyers to accept delivery in the U. S. if export became illegal. Now Britain and France have to take the risk that the arms embargo may not be repealed...