Word: goings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...embargo is accomplished," he interpolated: ''And I'd'rather say 'when than if.' " *German submarines can cruise about 3,000 miles, by proclamation of Franklin Roosevelt have the right to be peacefully present in neutral U. S. waters, refuel at U. S. ports, go peacefully home. Germany's famed Deutschland in World War I twice dodged the British and crossed to the U. S. Its U-53 put up at Newport, R. I. just before it sank six foreign merchantmen off Nantucket...
...sells arms to the Allies, the whole U. S. economy will become dependent on war trade-business will depend on it for profits, labor for jobs, possibly even lenders for the security of their loans-and eventually the U. S. will have to go to war to save its customers. Rebuttal: Embargo or no embargo, the U. S. is going to have a huge war trade, for the Allies will need war materials. In the last war only 10% to 25% of the Allied purchases in the U. S. were arms. If the Allies cannot get arms, they will take...
...repealers among his Foreign Relations Committee steadily over the weekend, came to a full committee meeting Monday with a tightly knitted bill sharply defining U. S. neutrality, generally limiting the President's powers, but re-establishing the cash-and-carry system for trade with belligerents, except that go-day credit supplanted the cash phrase. With this before them, Vandenberg and the Opposition groomed for the latest Battle of a Century of many battles. On strategies, Vandenberg constantly counseled with aging, astute Jay Hayden, of the Detroit News, who often shifts his tobacco-quid disgustedly as he blue-pencils...
Last June Spencer resigned his position, despite the fact that his concluding appointment had another year to run, to go to Cambridge University, England. There he was to take up a life appointment as visiting lecturer in English literature...
When war broke out, Spencer was officially informed by Cambridge that it was up to him whether or not he should go to England this Fall. But in view of unofficial Information that "there would be no one there to teach," he applied for a year's leave of absence from his new post, and was granted a one-year temporary appointment here...