Word: embargoing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week Republican Chairman O'Brien of the Tariff Commission split with his President and his party when he said: "Our imports today are at a very low ebb. We're not being flooded by imports. Our relations abroad are already bad enough. If you want an embargo, go ahead and pass this bill." That no last-gasp Republican tariff bill should pass the House was the firm purpose of the Democratic majority...
...permit State branch banking. ¶ Heard Indiana's Robinson call France "a thorough ingrate." ¶ Passed a bill giving 350,000 bales of Farm Board cotton to the Red Cross. ¶ Passed without debate a resolution from the Foreign Relations Committee to give the President wider powers to embargo arms shipments. ¶ Adopted a resolution by Virginia's Glass to extend the currency expansion provision of the Glass-Steagall law one year...
...over R. F. C. relief for that State again last week. Irked at R. F. C. delays Governor Pinchot wired the President a protest against "its cruel, needless and unexplained refusal" to advance Pennsylvania $10,000,000 for relief, asked for a White House appointment "to end this senseless embargo." President Hoover replied that he has "no authority or right to direct the board to make specific loans," declared it was composed of "eminent, patriotic and sympathetic men," suggested the Governor study the law. Mr. Pinchot rapped back: "I cannot concede that you are powerless to help. . . . Your appointees would...
...Petroleum Refinery, Ltd. (incorporated only last May), refined and placed on the Canadian market. Canada's oilmen spoke of "disturbing effects," pointed out that Mellon-controlled Gulf Oil Corp. was a member of the international oil conference which sought to limit Russian exports. Although they muttered about an "embargo," Ottawa was of the opinion that nothing could legally be done. Newshawks discovered the Russian tanker Aase Maersk lying in Montreal harbor loaded with 9,000 tons of rich crude from Batum, already consigned to La Salle Petroleum...
...Mother Country, faced by concerted Canadian, Australian and New Zealand demands that she place an embargo on Soviet wheat and timber, declared this to be "impossible," but hinted that a partial embargo might be placed on Argentine meat...