Word: pittman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Junking. After Elder Stimson, Chairman Pittman next called Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch, who served 21 years ago as chairman of the War Industries Board. His terse war sales formula has long been: "Come and get it." To Mr. Stimson's suggestion of discriminatory, perhaps embroiling embargoes, he answered: "If our economic war fails, we will be in military war. . . . If we make economic war, that conclusion is inevitable. . . . If we believe we can defend this hemisphere, then the whole argument for now waging economic war weakens." He would not even make war-selling a crime, but an affair strictly...
...will mean a fight to the finish with the isolationists who, though well intentioned, would prevent America from taking steps in her own defense; but it will be worth the effort if some enactment along the lines of the recent Stimson suggestions--combines, perhaps, with certain of the Pittman cash-and-carry provisions--can be made. Only thus, ion fact, can America make more likely her chance of remaining at peace...
President Roosevelt's Senate spokesman on Neutrality, Chairman Key Pittman of the Foreign Relations Committee, brought forth a plan to amend the present law so that the President need no longer prohibit munitions sales to belligerent nations, but only forbid U. S. ships to transport any goods to belligerents and U. S. nationals to travel on belligerents' ships. A "cash & carry" plan for all exports to belligerents would obviously work against Adolf Hitler, who in case of war with England and France would lack both cash to buy and ships to carry...
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Key Pittman, (D., Nev.), chairman of the influential Foreign Relations Committee, today introduced legislation which would enable the United States to lead a gigantic armament program in the Western Hemisphere by permitting sale of secret Army and Navy equipment to Latin American Nations...
...Conference "Ding" Darling formed his National Wildlife Federation, a fish-flesh-&-fowl made up of all factions in the conservation movement. Since then the Pittman-Robertson Act has set aside the 10% excise tax on sporting arms & ammunition for wildlife propagation and research. Hunters and animal-lovers, unified at last, have pushed through many a national and State fish-&-game law. Last week, when the fourth annual North American Wildlife Conference opened in Detroit, the Federation was going strong...