Word: embargoing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Repeal of the Arms Embargo is very unlikely to cause a war boom in this country and will affect American business much less than is generally realized according in Alvin H. Hansen, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy...
Should Congress revoke the Embargo Act, the country would, of course, be able to sell directly to the Allies planes and tanks which would otherwise be built in Canada, Professor Hansen said. "If we don't repeal the Embargo, new plants will be built in Canada for the manufacture of heavy munitions," he added...
...Conant Endorses Embargo Repeal." "Borab Says Repeal Means War." "Seymour Says Allies Must Win." The writhing head-lines pound meaninglessly at the Vagabond's head as he tries to understand and to make up his own mind. Join the Allies and save democracy from the totalitarians? Stay out under all circumstances? Go into the business with measures short of war? Not just idle questions, for perhaps they are even matters of life and death to the Vagabond...
...this view, it is the manner in which it is expressed. Mr. Conant does not argue the case for repeal. Once his opinion is stated, he drops the issue completely. What follows is an astute bit of mancuvering calculated to put Mr. Landon--and, of course, the embargo bloc as a whole--neatly on the spot. His words show a masterful knowledge of American political machinations...
...Committee, comprising prominent educational leaders and members of the legal profession, is pledged to work in favor of President Roosevelt's recommendations for repeal of the embargo provisions of the present neutrality...