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...hour bill. She favored a less rigid measure which would permit her department to flex working hours between 30 and 40 per week, to meet different conditions in different industries. In the provision barring imports from countries with longer work weeks than the U. S. she saw an embargo which would seriously embarrass the President in his World Economic Conference negotiations starting this week at the White House...
...Passed (252-110) a resolution authorizing the President to proclaim and enforce an embargo on arms as a means of stifling foreign wars; sent it to the Senate...
...Russians might think the Soviet was afraid to mete out the same justice to the subjects of Imperial Britain as it does to its own Comrades. If they were found guilty, King George V had just put his signature to a bill empowering his Government to declare a complete embargo of Russian goods and cut off from Russia some $130,000,000 a year of her best customer's trade. Every diplomat, every reporter in Moscow fought for a seat in that blue & white room and gazed eagerly at the tables covered with red cloth where sat three sack...
...embargo on gold, it appears to me, is a necessary Prerequisite to a vigorous attempt to combat deflation. The ground is now cleared both nationally and internationally, for a courageous, but same attempt to increase monetary incomes. Up to the present the success of any bold policy to overcome the depression would have been jeopardized by the deflationary effects of a possible outflow of gold. This danger is now removed...
Thoughtfully considering the size of Britain's embargo gun, Moscow authorities proceeded with plans for the trial of the British engineers but made several concessions. All but one of the prisoners, W. H. MacDonald, were released on bail. Though they had been refused British counsel to defend them, it was announced that British lawyers would be allowed to attend the trial as observers. Finally a squad of Soviet lawyers was rounded up to act for the defense, and the arrested Britons were summoned to the offices of the Collegium of Attorneys to pick their favorites. Their choices: Engineer Monk...