Word: embargoing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain was accused by leftists and liberals of deserting the cause of democracy in Spain when late in November she (1 lifted the embargo on shipments to Rebel Spain...
Resolution. Aim of the Neutrality Bill, enacted this year was to keep the U. S. out of situations leading to war by enabling the President to embargo U. S. shipments to belligerents. Since the Kellogg Pact renouncing war, no wars have been declared. To undeclared wars the President can apply the Neutrality Act or not, as he sees fit. The law for which the Panay sinking last week surprisingly supplied momentum in Congress was one which, as an expression of pacifism, made the Neutrality Act look like a speech by Mussolini...
Harvard's own embargo on arms and munitions became effective at the beginning of the College year, although it was lost in a welter of parietal regulations and other rules relating to College studies...
Ever since the war in China started six weeks ago, Franklin Roosevelt has been embarrassed by the fact that, until war was declared, he could scarcely apply the Neutrality Act without making a bad situation worse. Last week's embargo appeared to bear the same relation to an official application of the Neutrality Act that the Sino-Japanese conflict bears to a declared...
...jobs dwindled as the available storage space gradually filled up, and a delegation of longshoremen's wives waited on San Francisco's Mayor Rossi with pleas to end the war. When shippers started to direct cargoes to Oakland and other Bay ports, Beck simply widened his embargo. Outbound freight was not hit so hard because it moves to the docks largely by rail, not trucks...