Word: nothingness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many an advocate of embargo repeal declares that he wants it in order to keep the U. S. out of war, whereas obviously he has quite another reason : he does not think it will bring war, and he wants to strike a blow at Fascism. Similarly many an opponent of...
It looked as if Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg was the biggest paradox of all. Vandenberg best symbolized all phases and shades of the opposition to embargo repeal, thus was chosen to open debate for the antis, while Clark (diehard extremist) was to manage the Floor fight; and Borah (traditional romantic) was...
Temporarily throttled while the national focus was on the Senate, the House watched carefully, dug out from their mail only to recess again. But while nothing has ever hurried the tempo of the Senate, the Administration was ready to try. Key Pittman convened the pro-repealers among his Foreign Relations...
The Loeffler boys said nothing to anybody, but on August 28 they skipped out of Brandenburg, got aboard the President Harding at Hamburg. Three days later Germany went to war.
The Congress which is currently meeting in Special Session may either: (a) retain the present Neutrality Act; (b) repeal it and substitute Senator Pittman's "Cash and Carry" plan; or (c) repeal it without making any further legislation. If the existing statue is retained, all shipments of arms, ammunition, and...