Word: embargoing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour bill. She favored a less rigid measure which would permit her department to flex working hours between 30 and 40 per week, to meet different conditions in different industries. In the provision barring imports from countries with longer work weeks than the U. S. she saw an embargo which would seriously embarrass the President in his World Economic Conference negotiations starting this week at the White House...
...embargo on gold, it appears to me, is a necessary Prerequisite to a vigorous attempt to combat deflation. The ground is now cleared both nationally and internationally, for a courageous, but same attempt to increase monetary incomes. Up to the present the success of any bold policy to overcome the depression would have been jeopardized by the deflationary effects of a possible outflow of gold. This danger is now removed...
...loaded gun that Prime Minister MacDonald asked for-power to declare an embargo on Soviet goods-was charged by Commons last week. The gun was charged for just one purpose: to save the lives of six electrical engineers held for trial in Moscow on charges of espionage and sabotage (TIME, March 27, April 10). Because of the obvious danger to British trade from the gun's recoil if fired, the embargo enabling act was limited to three months, and hints were scattered in all directions that the embargo would not be declared at all UNLESS...
Thoughtfully considering the size of Britain's embargo gun, Moscow authorities proceeded with plans for the trial of the British engineers but made several concessions. All but one of the prisoners, W. H. MacDonald, were released on bail. Though they had been refused British counsel to defend them, it was announced that British lawyers would be allowed to attend the trial as observers. Finally a squad of Soviet lawyers was rounded up to act for the defense, and the arrested Britons were summoned to the offices of the Collegium of Attorneys to pick their favorites. Their choices: Engineer Monk...
...real evidence against the arrested engineers, particularly when two other engineers of the same firm arrested on the same charges at the same time, had been so promptly released. Proceeding cautiously, the Government planned to introduce in the House of Commons a bill empowering the Government to declare an embargo on April 17; but about the Moscow trial the Prime Minister would say nothing "because to do so would not be in interest of the accused." From white-whiskered old Labor Leader George Lansbury, leading the opposition to the embargo plan, this brought forth a sharp rejoinder: "The Prime Minister...