Word: embargoing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yakima, Wash, and up & down the Shenandoah Valley, U. S. Ambassador Walter Evans Edge was last week gratefully known as "the man who saved the Winesaps." The French embargo on all fresh fruit from the U. S. (and particularly apples) was broken...
Ambassador Edge had more than an official interest in the embargo. He is heartily fond of greens. Objecting to the pale and bloated asperge blanche of France, he imports his own green asparagus from New Jersey. The Ambassador frequently chomps in Paris a crisp U. S. apple. Last week 500 tons of such apples, valued at $100,000, lay on the docks at Havre, kept out of the country as suspected carriers of the pernicious San José scale (TIME, March...
...Pippins, Winesaps, Deliciouses?20,000 barrels of them from U. S. orchards were piled high in the hold of S. S. Ile de France last week when she nosed past Havre breakwater. These apples, valued at $100,000, stayed on the Ile de France. France had just slapped an embargo on all "fresh fruits, live plants or parts of live plants from the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, China and Japan." The embargo was officially based on the discovery of San José scale, an infectious fruit scab, on recent shipments of apples and pears from the U. S. Plant...
...Paris, U. S. commercial attaches scurried around the ministries, attempting to win over competing Norman apple growers, hoping to find a loophole by which U. S. Pippins and Baldwins could slip through the embargo if each shipment was accompanied by a special bill of health from U. S. sanitary inspectors. Also in Paris last week was none other than the President of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, grey-haired Silas Hardy Strawn of Chicago, who has been at various times president of the U. S. Bar and Golf Associations. Lawyer Strawn was U. S. delegate to the Chinese tariff...
...Monday experienced Washington correspondents observed "great relief" in Administration quarters when Senator Borah took the limelight once again with another of his pedigreed explosions. "I do not question, of course," said Senator Borah, "the good faith of those who are urging an embargo against Japan, but I certainly question the wisdom of their program. In my opinion, the best way to advance the cause of war between this country and Japan is to do precisely what people are urging in the way of peace...