Word: embargo
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...ambiguous as to whether the Party favors a "protective tariff," called "Safeguarding" in England. However Leader MacDonald, a staunch Free Trader, warned that even if some form of protection should have to be adopted he would by no means favor a tariff ("safeguarding") but instead would place an absolute embargo on too-cheap, too-competitive foreign goods...
...judged from three facts: 1) He won recognition for his Government from President Harding; 2) He "borrowed" $5,000,000 from. Edward L. Doheny; 3) He was saved from being ousted by a revolt led by General Adolfo de La Huerta, when President Calvin Coolidge declared an embargo on arms destined for Huerta, then permitted Obregon and Calles...
...that President Taft later excoriated as "indefensible" the helpful wool schedules of the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill. In short, before Mr. Hunneman would give money to Hooverism, he demanded a declaration from Mr. Hoover on the present wool tariff which, according to Mr. Hunneman, strikes manufacturers as a virtual embargo...
...abroad has been denied to Frenchmen by the law of April 3, 1918. Evasions, numerous, have always been severely punished when detected. Last week this intolerable, emergency damaging of the flow of capital was ended by plump, jovial President Gaston Doumergue who signed a decree lifting the capital embargo...
...Mexico of a Ford-Stout all-metal monoplane like the one in which Mrs. Lindbergh, Engineer William B. Stout & Mrs. Stout & friends flew from Detroit to Mexico City, was welcomed in Mexico and discussed in Washington as the harbinger of a general lifting by the State Department of the embargo on U. S. planes sold to Mexico. In approving purchase of the single plane, which the Mexican government said it wanted for official inspection tours, the State Department said it would review the whole plane and arms & ammunition embargoes...