Word: embargos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...message was brief: unless the Metropolitan-Yickers engineers were released at once, unless the Soviet Government promised that they would never have to stand trial, Britain will place an embargo on all Russian goods, effective April 17, when the present Anglo-Russian trade agreement expires. Before Sir Esmond had finished, rotund Commissar Litvinov interrupted...
Orchids grow from Alaska to Argentina in the Western Hemisphere. The best are hardest to find, in the jungled Casanare and San Martin regions of Colombia and Peru. A good man to find them was Swedish-born John Emil Lager, until the U. S. put an embargo on orchids in 1919 because they carry insects. From 1890 until 1908 he ranged South America for the wild strange blooms from which he has grown rare progeny ever since-huge single flowers for debutantes, dowagers and prima donnas; smaller ones for fancy gentlemen; orchids in long sprays, in tiny spidery spikes, some...
...coral snake. Once he camped on a little island in the great Orinoco River, his orchids all boxed on their rafts for the trip home. Flood, freshets boomed down the river, lifted Lager, rafts and orchids and set them on land 400 mi. downstream. Since the U. S. embargo he has stopped hunting except occasionally in Florida...
Despite the vigorous opposition of Representative Hamilton Fish '10, and others, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs has recommended to the legislature an Arms Embargo Bill giving the President the right to join with such countries in a boycott agreement as he sees fit if he believes the circumstances warrant it. All good Republicans are up in arms against what they feel is a revolutionary measure placing an amount of power in the Executive's hands greater than anything heretofore: the power virtually to make war independently of the Senate...
...stalwart men who are objecting most strenuously to this bill are quite wrong in thinking that it will mean a drastic change. For the simple, unavoidable fact is that the President can start a war whenever he so desires. He has no need of declaring an arms embargo. History has borne this out amply. In 1846 President Polk found it easy enough; troops were sent into the disputed area, American blood was promptly and profusely shed, the flag was fired upon, and the national honor placed in joopardy. War was a foregone conclusion. Showing a little more finesse, President McKinley...