Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lift the embargo on Loyalist Spain! Lift the embargo on Loyalist Spain...
...document concludes by citing the opinions of former Secretary of State Henry Stimson, Associate Professor Arthur N. Holcombe, Assistant Professor Payson S. Wild, and Associate Professor Rupert Emerson that the President has the power to lift the embargo himself...
...Catholic pro-Franco minority last week did a workmanlike job of sitting down hard on the U. S. arms embargo on Spain, which many a friend of the Loyalists had hoped to have lifted during the present session of Congress. The "Lift the Embargo" campaign had the support of President Roosevelt's passing reference to the injustice of such measures in his opening message to Congress. But the lifters, badly stage-managed, strained a muscle in their first heave last week...
Nevada's Senator McCarran, good Roman Catholic and father of two nuns,* declared that any attempt to lift the embargo "will be met by Senate opposition that will be remembered for a long time to come...
...friends expected, passenger revenues dropped-the New York Central's falling 17% in August, compared with 1937, the B. & O.'s 19.5%, the New Haven's 3%. This slump continued until the Christmas holidays, when the roads experimentally restored the old low rates, got an immediate lift. Hence last week's committee...