Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...Repeal of the Arms Embargo is very unlikely to cause a war boom in this country and will affect American business much less than is generally realized according in Alvin H. Hansen, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy...
Should Congress revoke the Embargo Act, the country would, of course, be able to sell directly to the Allies planes and tanks which would otherwise be built in Canada, Professor Hansen said. "If we don't repeal the Embargo, new plants will be built in Canada for the manufacture of heavy munitions," he added...
...Conant Endorses Embargo Repeal." "Borab Says Repeal Means War." "Seymour Says Allies Must Win." The writhing head-lines pound meaninglessly at the Vagabond's head as he tries to understand and to make up his own mind. Join the Allies and save democracy from the totalitarians? Stay out under all circumstances? Go into the business with measures short of war? Not just idle questions, for perhaps they are even matters of life and death to the Vagabond...
...this neutrality debate, the anti-repealers have the strategic edge. Made-to-order is the dramatic slogan: "Repeal means war." It fits nicely into newspaper headlines; it has an overwhelming, if irrational, appeal; it is difficult to answer. The supporters of repeal must resort to logic, to reason, to fact in their argument; and such an approach is never so effective in the political arena. Moreover, the fundamental argument for repeal, that a shortening of the war's duration and an increase in the Allies' chances of victory maximize America's chances of staying at peace--this argument cannot...