Word: embargos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...panacea, the one upon which British Hope is pinned today, is Britain's new exclusionist embargo and tariff policy (see Parliament's Week) upon which she counts to reduce her imports. But this is not enough. She must increase her exports. How? The fundamental trouble is with the brains of British businessmen, as H. R. H., the Prince of Wales, told them again last week. They are too slow to master the U. S. methods of salesmanship...
Explaining the petition to the President of the United States, asking for an embargo on arms destined for Japan and, if existing treaties to which the United States is a signatory have been violated, a cessation of all commercial relations between this country and Japan, which has been signed by a number of members of the faculty, Professor A. N. Holcombe, first man to sign the petition, said...
...late as the 18th Century there was no such policy. "Free Trade," in the swaggering argot of desperados, meant smuggling, a crime punished by Death. To Queen Elizabeth, to Louis XIV or George III it seemed as natural to impose the equivalent of a modern tariff or embargo as to breathe. It seems so still to a majority of statesmen. That Great Britain in the igth Century took another line was due to such bold spirits as Thinker Adam Smith, Propagandist Richard Cobden, Pioneer Sir Robert Peel, Statesman William Ewart Gladstone, and to Geography...
...ducks are shot to the south of the line. Also that 6,500,000 licenses are annually issued in the U. S. and that in some States there is open season the year around leads us to question the right of Americans who are clamoring at Ottawa for an embargo on duck and geese shooting in Canada this year...
...shock to Californians, for Mr. Talbot was the Pacific Coast's big example of a boom-made man. Two decades ago he was clerking for Western Pipe and Steel Co., later was its president. He made smart deals, such as securing an option on Japanese steel under embargo during the War, selling to the Government when steel became scarce and the embargo was lifted. His drive and Mr. Fuller's flashy marketing and advertising ideas kept Richfield running its rapid expansion course. He was quiet in business, rewarded justly and reprimanded mercilessly. He was an air enthusiast, held...