Word: pittman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...former Klondike Gold Rush lawyer named Key Pittman was primarily responsible. Nevada's Pittman, a tall slender gentleman with a discriminating tongue for fine old whiskey and a talent for bumming cigarets from reporters, has one prime faculty-an ability to keep his mind's eye focused on the ice-cold political realities...
Describing the three commodities as "instruments of mass murder," Pittman said that the embargo as it now stands "has not stopped war" and "has not discouraged...
WASHINGTON--Sen. Key Pittman, D., Nev., leader of President Roosevelt's fight to repeal the Arms Embargo section of the Neutrality Act, today angrily challenged his isolationist fees to add cotton, oil and American-mined metals to the embargo list to prove their sincerity...
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 Committee steadily over the weekend, came to a full committee meeting Monday with a tightly knitted bill sharply defining U. S. neutrality, generally limiting the President's powers, but re-establishing the cash-and-carry system for trade with belligerents, except that go-day credit supplanted the cash phrase...
...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 implements of war will be barred. It says nothing of the raw materials and semi-finished products which made up 85 percent of U. S. shipments to the Allies during World War I. Although the "Cash and Carry" proposal prevents American ships from carrying cargo to belligerents, the present law makes...