Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After two years of fist-shaking and name-calling in lieu of clarity of purpose, Secretary of State Cordell Hull last week left off shuffling papers and got around to applying the second* faltering economic sanction against Argentina: he barred U.S.-flag ships from calling at Argentine for northbound cargo...
...Grace? The London Daily Mirror printed the story (with names withheld). Englishmen were shocked. The U.S. Army had Parliament's sanction to deal with its own delinquents in its own way but this time Englishmen could not keep quiet. Pointing out the "reasonable doubts" in the case, the Mirror indignantly editorialized: "In America, which has a color problem peculiar to herself, clemency might not be possible. Here . . . it may not be impossible as an act of grace to take a different view...
Then, suddenly, it became evident that G-men were patrolling the plant. Posters appeared on bulletin boards forbidding the firing of any employes without Government sanction. A sub-executive tore one of them off, was instantly handcuffed, hustled off to jail and charged with stealing Government property. His explanation: he just wanted to show it to his boss...
Paid Brain. Anyone listening to Kaltenborn's final broadcast for last week (NBC, Mon. to Fri., 7:45 p.m., E.W.T.) heard that Mussolini, though slipping, was still Italy's boss; that the refusal of Argentina's new government to sanction a general election meant more dictatorship and revolution; that the U.S. food situation was bad because it had been run by a White House clique; that U.S. coal miners were 50% better off than when war began...
...publicity will break down their traditional resistance to Dobbin as a victual. It's significant to note, however, that the Provisions course does not indicate the quantity of hoss meat to be stowed for an indefinite cruise, for 100 men, implying that this commodity still lacks official Navy sanction...