Word: pittman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vice chairman of the Senate Committee on Conservation of Wild Life Resources, Nevada's Key Pittman sagely observed: "We of the legislative branch of the Government feel the necessity for support, moral and sentimental, of our constituents in every matter." Darling & friends scurried through corridors, in & out of bedrooms, buttonholing stubborn delegates, arguing the cause of union...
Characterizing Europe as an armed camp full of fear and hatred, Senator Key Pittman, chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, in a special interview with the CRIMSON, expressed the opinion that the outlook for peace in Europe is not very bright...
Concluding, Mr. Pittman said, "The evolution of the human race has moved in cycles, and undoubtedly will continue to so move. Every violent action has a reaction. But between such periods there are periods of sanity and peace, I hope and believe that after the violence of the present period we will advance even further towards international cooperation for peace...
Prime new feature of the Pittman-McReynolds bill was a momentous mandatory provision for an embargo on loans and credits to all belligerents. Otherwise the new bill largely strengthens, confirms and makes permanent the peace policy set up by Congress, President and Secretary of State since Italy's Ethiopian campaign sent a great war scare rumbling across the U. S. As in the expiring law, the President in case of war must declare an embargo on arms, ammunition & implements of war against all belligerents, must forbid U. S. ships to carry munitions directly or indirectly to belligerents...
...Pittman-McReynolds bill would further allow the President to prohibit shipment to belligerents of abnormal amounts of any commodities essential to war, except food and medical supplies. Kinds and "normal" amounts of commodities would be fixed by him. Modifying its mandatory embargo on loans & credits, the bill would empower the President to permit ordinary commercial credits and short-term obligations necessary to normal business...