Word: embargo
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...With State Department officials all atwitter over the possibility of Germany and Italy plunging into the Spanish civil war and over the advisability of including them, under the Neutrality Act's arms embargo and other prohibitions, as "belligerents," the President had Secretary Hull, Under Secretary Sumner Welles and Ambassador-at-Large Norman Davis to a luncheon conference. They decided to do nothing...
...invalidated law after law-NRA, AAA, hot oil, Guffey Coal-and upheld only one of importance - devaluation and the cancelation of the gold clause - it has not since last October overruled the New Deal on a single major case. Instead, it upheld in the past year: the arms embargo in the Chaco War, the new Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act, the Railway Labor Act, the Wagner Labor Law, the Social Security Law. Yet it was not until this winter that the President demanded that it be changed. A valedictory upon this historic Court was pronounced last week by a Washington...
More important to Britons than Italy's embargo on their Coronation last week was the continued strike of 25,000 London busmen demanding a 7½-hour day, slower schedules. The capital, without its 5,000 chugging, swaying, double-decker busses, which carry 5,000,000 passengers a day, looked strange, and only taxi-drivers, who did a roaring business, rejoiced in their absence. Two other labor clouds loomed ominously: first, many subway and streetcar workers were eager to stage a sympathetic walkout; second, miners all over the country threatened to strike a week after the Coronation, unless Harworth...
...trouble is anticipated in shipping the ambulance if enough money is obtained, spokesmen for the committee declared yesterday, since it would be for medical aid, and ambulances are not subject to the embargo provisions...
There is nothing very serious about this arbitrary little restriction and no one will go hungry as a result, but it tries a man's patience, and ruffles his equanimity. Mr. Hieman has denied any connection with the new fruit embargo, so the only conclusion that can be drawn is that some waitress or waitresses decided that she would take the matter into her own hands. But now that all fruit served must be cut and eaten on the premises, the waitresses have the added responsibility of seeing that no one slyly puts a grapefruit or two into his pocket...