Word: embargoed
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...clubs, took their money and scuttled the ship. Desperate, the Seattle Times splashed a full-page editorial across its front page : SEATTLE SHALL NOT DIE! To the West Coast went Joseph P. Ryan, big, hard-boiled president of I. L. A. He permitted a temporary lifting of the embargo on Alaskan shipping out of Seattle because of a threatened food short age. But no truce was extended to the Grace Line, to Luckenbach, Dollar or Pan ama Pacific. Freight had to be carried by rail from San Francisco to Seattle and Portland. The Japanese-owned N. Y. K. Line, with...
...secret approval of the Roosevelt Administration was the buck so neatly passed to the U. S. President Hoover had earnestly tried to halt the shipment of arms to the Chaco. Then in April 1933 the House had passed an Administration resolution authorizing the President to impose an arms embargo on any aggressor nation anywhere in the world. When the resolution reached the Senate broad-beamed Hiram Johnson had it amended to apply to both sides in a fight, on the theory that a one-sided embargo would be more likely to draw the U. S. into a war than...
...Britain . . . therefore asks the Council to send telegrams at once to the governments whose co-operation is necessary to enforce an arms embargo...
...should like to recapitulate the history of the proposal for an arms embargo. It was on the initiative of the British Government that an exchange of views took place originally more than a year ago, between the Governments of the United Kingdom, the United States, France and Italy, with a view to an agreement between them prohibiting the export of arms to Bolivia and Paraguay...
...number of states made their acceptance subject to acceptance of the declaration by a specific number of other states, including the United States. The Government of the latter country, however, stated they were unable to impose an embargo until necessary legislation was passed by Congress, and no such legislation was passed...