Word: embargoing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Argentine business" that bothered Mr. Mitchell is an unratified sanitary convention to replace the present embargo on Argentine meat, promulgated ostensibly to keep out foot & mouth disease. The sanitary convention would admit meat from uninfected Argentine districts instead of considering the whole country under a foot & mouth quarantine...
...give. Chief difference was that the Roosevelt voice cloaked them with an aura of statesmanship. He mentioned that he would ask Congress for quick action to extend the expiring life of certain authorizations and powers (for example, RFC lending), to modify the Neutrality Act in order to provide an embargo against arms shipments to Spain, to pass a deficiency bill (to provide for Relief). He ticked off recommendations and reports on many subjects: Reorganization. "I find that this task of Executive management has reached the point where our administrative machinery needs comprehensive overhauling." Housing. "Many millions of Americans still live...
Christian M. Lauritzen '40, last speaker for the negative said, "An embargo on munitions is totally inadequate, and is more likely to get us into war than keep...
Tudor Gardiner '40, first speaker for the negative, said that an embargo and arms would be useless, and might in fact become harmful. 'Are we to tie the hands of a government hit by civil war?" he asked...
...United States is aligning itself with Hitler and Germany in restricting the shipment of guns to the Spanish Loyalists," he said. "Instead of taking the particular circumstances of each case into consideration, we are forcing Congress to provide for a blanket embargo for all wars...