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...Ohio's Representative Theodore E. Burton introduced a resolution to empower the President to prohibit at his discretion export of arms & munitions to the aggressor in any war. Then & there arose the issue which has divided U. S. neutrality-seekers ever since, setting the Senate implacably against the President and State Department. Unwilling to let the President pick sides in a war by naming the aggressor, isolationist Senators asserted that an arms embargo should apply automatically to all belligerents. Otherwise, they argued, the embargoed nation would be certain to strike back exactly as Germany had struck. Firmly the State...
...based on clothes, the Assembly last week declared that "to expose the person or the private parts thereof" in the presence of two or more persons of the opposite sex who are similarly unclothed shall be a misdemeanor." The proponents of the bill carefully explain that it does not prohibit nudity in the theater, since audiences are decently attired. Perhaps the law was suggested by Actors' Equity as protection from non-professional competition...
...last session of Congress President Roosevelt vetoed a bill to prohibit export of tin-bearing scrap. Scrap dealers expect new agitation for an embargo at this session, are confident that President Roosevelt will oppose it because he is trying to develop export trade. But last fortnight, Raymond Moley, the President's friend and counselor, published as the lead article in his magazine Today a sharply critical analysis of Japan's scrap buying by Ray Tucker, longtime Washington newshawk. Reporter Tucker concluded that Japan's demand for scrap was unmistakably for the purpose of 1) modernizing her army...
With thunderclouds of labor warfare forming on the textile front, the National Association of Manufacturers reveals a plan to propose federal legislation outlawing general and sympathetic strikes. Similar to the British Trade Disputes Act of 1927, the program hopes to prohibit all strikes and lockouts where "the object is other than in furtherance of a trade dispute in industry...
...bill to empower the Governor to use the National Guard in any manner he chooses and to prohibit State courts from interfering. If a judge dares to issue an injunction against the use of troops, he may be fined, thrown into jail...