Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chambers pleaded for action to influence Congress to lift the embargo on Spain contending that there was still time enough to aid the Loyalists in beating Franco. He reported that he had delivered the Harvard Petitions to lift the embargo to the White House...
...Saturday night in addition to the featured Harvard-Dartmouth tilt are Pennsylvania at Cornell and Princeton at Columbia. According to reports from Tigertown, this Princeton-Columbia fracas will provide an acid test as to the success of the Cappon coaching regime inaugurated this year. Cappy Cappon was slated to lift, the Tigers out of the basketball doldrums, but as yet his team has failed in every crucial test...
Amid such sentiments, subject to such pressure, Franklin Roosevelt who never loved the strict provisions of the Neutrality Act stood by it. He knew that at such a late hour lifting the embargo would involve the U. S. in diplomatic trouble and threaten U. S. peace far more effectively than it could help Loyalist Spain. This put the President in an unusual spot for him: on the unpopular side of a question. But he did not refer to these facts when he replied, through the press, to the clamoring friends of Loyalist Spain. He referred all pleaders to the State...
Although agreeing with you when you urge "a constructive attitude toward American cooperation in the world," I must take exception to certain parts of the Friday editorial: those portions which refer to the Harvard petition to lift the Embargo...
Misdirected? No; the signers address the President of the United States, who had the power-according not only to Mr. Stimson but to several of our own Government Professors-to lift the embargo without further Congressional action...