Word: bans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...buying and stuffing them into stockings at such a rate that urban French capitalists are left with a legitimate surplus of capital for investment abroad. A further prop to French financial stability was set up, last week, by the lifting of the U. S. State Department's ban of more than three years standing against flotation on U. S. capital of French industrial loans...
Although the Department of State refused to say why, there were two good reasons for raising the ban: 1) French industries are so conservatively managed, offer such sound investment opportunities, that U. S. financiers are impatient to do business with them; 2) Because a French general election looms this Spring, it is prudent for the U. S. to make a friendly gesture, tending to further the election of Deputies favorable to ratification by France of the Mellon-Berenger debt funding agreement...
...called the most impressive ceremony in the history of the U.S.-Mexican diplomacy. Crowds craned. The press cheered. As if to inaugurate an era of better feeling, President Calles raised the embargo on the purchase of U. S. goods by Mexican Government offices-a retributive measure -and the ban on mail in Mexico from U.S. insurance companies- a ban required by the law which makes foreign companies invest money in Mexico" before doing business there...
Then, finally, he denied that Spain had placed a general ban on the books of Blasco Ibaņez and had denied his authorship of Mare Nostrum. With a seeming pat on the back and a left hook to the jaw, the Ambassador concluded...