Word: cancels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paid "palm oil" to Comptroller General Lopez of Bolivia, protests continued pouring in. Within a few days Secretary Hull had no less than 15 on his hands. Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper announced that it had been reported to him that Latin Americans, sensitive about bribe-taking, would cancel all U. S. trade contracts unless the Senate investigation was conducted more privately. Chilean Minister of War Emilio Bello Codesido announced that no U. S. bids would be considered in the next purchase of aviation material. Senator Nye, after a conference with Secretaries Hull and Roper, tried...
...giant S. S. Leviathan on seven transatlantic trips a year for five years. During the first year under this contract the Leviathan lost more than $500,000. Thereupon the U. S. Lines put her in dock at Hoboken, N. J., for a year, tried to persuade the Government to cancel its contract. The Government stood by its bargain, but the company had this loophole: U. S. Lines might omit two of the Leviathan's seven contracted trips on payment of a $20,000 fine...
Britain. So sacrosanct is the British week-end that Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon created a stir by letting it be known in London that, although he would not cancel his week-end in the country, he would keep in constant touch by wire with his Foreign Office. To the Commons Sir John announced in language elliptical but unmistakable that His Majesty's Government stands with Italy and France for the preservation of Austrian independence from Germany. London editors were unanimous in flaying the Nazi slayers, echoed the Evening Standard which declared that Germany is "the Dillinger of Europe...
...Kings nor President Kemal lacks personal courage. During the fêtes, rejoicings, fireworks, skewered lamb and champagne at Ankara last week news came of severe earthquakes in Western Turkey, the very region through which Host Kemal was about to escort Guest Pahlevi. Neither showed the slightest desire to cancel these plans. The royal Persian junket became an earnest inspection trip through the shaken area down to Smyrna with homeless families watching the Near East's two Strong...
...Congress added this amendment: "Nothing in this Act shall be construed to give any authority to cancel or reduce in any manner any of the indebtedness of any foreign country to the U. S." That one sentence knocked out of the President's hand what was general!}7 expected to be his most useful crowbar in prying trade privileges for U. S. industries out of foreign countries with big War Debts owing...