Word: embargos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the Ethiopian War Thomas Joseph Pendergast, Democratic dictator of Kansas City, was said to have used influence in Washington to quash the proposed U. S. embargo on oil to Italy. Last week Italian Vice Consul Alessandro Savorgnan of St. Louis draped around Dictator Pendergast's pudgy neck the insignia of the Order of Commander of the Crown of Italy...
...evident. Waving tiny Mexican flags, 200,000 of them paraded in Mexico City to celebrate their "Declaration of Economic Independence," hail the departure of los Gringos from the oil fields. But if President Lazaro Cárdenas enjoyed the parade, he was not amused by the U. S. silver embargo. Seriously he proclaimed to his people: "We must draw together to meet an unexpected problem." Mexico is the world's biggest silver producer and its silver mines are even more important to its domestic economy than its oil fields. Thirteen percent of the Government's revenues have come...
Would Limit Embargo...
...Connell's bill would amend the present Neutrality Act, wihch applies an embargo on war materials to both sides in the present Spanish and Chinese wars, so as to limit the embargo to the aggressor nation and allow suppies to be sent to the victims of aggression...
...Harvard delegation to Poughkeepsie virtually originated the "Resolution on Peace" now discredited by the local chapter. The articles of the Resolution most opposed were those advocating "international collaboration," urging a Japanese boycott and embargo, and supporting the Ludlow Amendment...