Word: embargoing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there almost daily, swore to keep the U. S. out of that "entangling alliance." Last week, in the same room, around the same Hiram Johnson (but now conservative and weak-voiced) another dozen-and-a-half gathered, pledged themselves to U. S. isolation and to defense of the arms embargo...
...split party lines. Such men as Ernest Tener Weir of Weirton Steel, who sees no sense in costly plant expansion to make munitions for profits the Government will then confiscate, moved to support Vandenberg. But Washington lobbies were thick with the agents of Big Business, plugging embargo repeal furiously over the fumes of free cigars. And such business-sensitive newspapers as the Wall Street Journal and the New York Herald Tribune were hailing their onetime target, Franklin Roosevelt, and sniping anti-repealers...
...looked as if Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg was the biggest paradox of all. Vandenberg best symbolized all phases and shades of the opposition to embargo repeal, thus was chosen to open debate for the antis, while Clark (diehard extremist) was to manage the Floor fight; and Borah (traditional romantic) was to have the last word. Thus the "Big Michigander,"* always safe, sound, middle-of-the-road, now stood up to the Pretorian Guard of his party-Big Business. For there was no doubt he was flying in the face of Michigan's corporate empire-General Motors. Henry Ford, however, vigorously...
...assessing his chances of victory last week, Vandenberg was well aware, as were all the Senate's elders, that: 1) if the President is to win, he should do it in 30 days, for a dragged-out fight makes embargo-repeal unlikely unless such potential horrors as the bombing of Westminster Abbey or the destruction of Paris swing U. S. sentiment; 2) while delaying tactics probably mean victory for the Isolationists, the U. S. public will stand for no filibuster; 3) he must join with his fellow-Republicans in holding down Bob La Follette, who is bent on stealing...
President Lowell; Jaines M. Landis, Dean of the Law School; William Y. Elliott, professor of Government; and Arthur N. Holcombe, professor of Government, have expressed their disapproval of the arms embargo by joining the newly-formed Non-Partisan Neutrality Committee for New England, it was announced Saturday...