Word: embargoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mused Marmaduke, "the epic peice would be wittled down to a few lines which dident even scan, and would be handed back to the noble poet with the embargo: 'Not for publication before 00.30 hours B.S.T. . . .' And the noble poet would probely give up poetry altogether and get a job writing hand-outs for the Ministry...
...Whole Story." With solemn gusto, Franklin Roosevelt then read the roll of the war measures which the Republicans in Congress had opposed: Repeal of the Arms Embargo, 1939; Selective Service, 1940; Lend-Lease, 1941; extension of Selective Service, August...
...days after the shipping embargo, President Roosevelt came to the support of Hull's action. Said the President: "This situation presents the extraordinary paradox of the growth of Nazi-Fascist in fluence and the increasing application of Nazi-Fascist methods in a country ... at the very time that those forces of aggression are drawing ever closer in final defeat and judgment in Europe and elsewhere in the world. . . . The Argentine Government has repudiated solemn inter-American obligations...
...State Department seemed to be planning some positive action in regard to Argentina, perhaps the long-rumored trade embargo. But this might be a tricky weapon. Argentines loathe outside coercion even more than they loathe their blundering militarists...
...became scarce, other nations might, with the consent of the Fund, ration the scarce currency. This means that if the U.S. insists on selling more than it buys (making dollars hard for others to get), other nations, instead of having to give up their gold, can put a partial embargo against U.S. imports. This would leave the U.S. free to choose its course but would put a penalty on abuse of that freedom...