Word: embargoing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief of the A. E. F.'s Second Army. Like his rival, Mr. Young, Colonel Goss insisted on the relative humanity of gas. From the files of Lake Erie Chemical Co. was extracted a letter insinuating that the American Legion could be induced to lobby against the Arms Embargo Bill in January 1933. Colonel Goss believed they had been so induced. Up from the committee table rose Senator Clark, one of the Legion's organizers and its second national commander, to roar: "If any member of the Legion took such action he is a disgrace to the Legion...
First important evidence was that du Pont lobbyists in Washington had worked hard and fast to block action on the House resolution providing U. S. cooperation in a general arms embargo on warring nations. And the du Fonts, it quickly developed, had a fine working agreement with the great British Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. to divide territories and profits for the sale of military explosives and other chemicals. How effectively this agreement worked was shown by a letter from the du Pont agent in South America, one N. E. Bates Jr., to I. C. I. in which he pointed...
Indicating that China would slap an embargo on silver exports if the U. S. nationalization program creates undue demand for the metal, Dr. Kung declared after a vigorous pull on his cigar: "China should be ready to act instantly-which we are-if necessary...
...British recovery as hawk-nosed, stoop-shouldered Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain loosened the Empire's money bags a trifle and dangled the prospect of loans before countries which have hooked their currencies to Sterling. When he took the pound off gold, Chancellor Chamberlain slapped a precautionary embargo on loaning British money overseas. Technically this embargo still blocks even British loans to the Dominions, but Mr. Chamberlain has leniently winked at several issues of that sort. His real aim is to make Sterling the standard trading medium of the world, the king of currencies. Since the dollar abdicated...
Rising in the House of Commons last week, Chancellor Chamberlain said that while he is not yet ready to revoke Britain's foreign loan embargo entirely he is willing "to consider special cases" and make important exceptions to authorize loans which are sought under two major heads: "'First, Sterling issues by a country within the Sterling bloc where the loan is needed to increase Sterling assets of that country and so to minimize the fluctuations of exchanges; second, Sterling issues on behalf of any borrower where the proceeds are calculated mainly to produce direct benefit to British industry...