Word: embargo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...power had been clearly demonstrated. Lacking Southern support, Franklin Roosevelt was beaten on every Congressional front in July and August (TIME, August 14); with it he won clearly in the Senate last fortnight, in the House last week-where 95 Southern votes were cast for repeal of the arms embargo, two against...
...John W. McCormack, of Boston's famous Ward 8. Last week Lindsay Warren, working glove-smooth with Leader Sam Rayburn of Texas, Whip Paddy Boland of Scranton, Pa., delivered the South bound-and-gagged to the New Deal. John McCormack broke a long and agonized silence on the embargo-repeal issue to deliver only a speech. In it he demanded that the U. S. recall its Ambassador from Moscow (see p. 15). Score at week's end: Warren I, McCormack...
...politicos and pundits. But if U. S. voters could not identify liberalism, they could spot a liberal without trouble. Liberal, in the sense that he is an ex-New Republican, is Columnist Walter Lippmann. Liberal also is Historian Charles Beard. While Liberal Lippmann plumped for repeal of the arms embargo, hammered at the Communist-Fascist threat to democracy, Liberal Beard wanted the embargo kept, lashed out at "giddy minds and foreign quarrels" like an outraged professor lecturing unruly students who have got his goat. Liberal Oswald Garrison Villard said his liberal say in the Nation, in the New York Evening...
...Third International blasted forth with a strident manifesto which called upon workers of the world to unite and "go against those who favor continuation of imperialistic war." Nothing wrong was found with Nazi Germany, but the manifesto singled out for special tongue-lashings the U. S., which "repeals the embargo on the export of arms to secure huge profits to the kings of the munitions industry"; Britain and France, for "keeping half the world in the chains of colonial slavery"; the Italian bourgeois, which "waits only for a convenient moment to throw himself on the oppressed and have his share...
...complaints and the temper of the U. S. public. And another thing he made perfectly clear was that there is some talk in the U. S. that when the abrogated Trade Treaty of 1911 lapses in January, it might be followed not by a new treaty, but by an embargo. To tell a Japanese that Americans do not like to fight Japan's war for them is not to threaten...