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...would reform and elevate the Art of Government. Advertised for Washington was a New Era. With the Press trumpeting welcomes and high hope, with a Cabinet substantial though not exceptional, President Hoover took his new job with a rush of enthusiasm. He stifled a Mexican revolution with an arms embargo. He moved to conserve oil on the public domain. He banished the hypocritical "Official Spokesman" from the White House. He summoned a special session of Congress to deal with farm relief and tariff revision. He exhorted the People to war against Crime. He began to appoint expert commissions to solve...
Lest the Treasury's embargo look like a political discrimination against Russia, the State Department last week instructed its consuls throughout the world to report on convict-made goods in their respective areas with a view to including other countries in the embargo. Complaint by U. S. tobacco producers, feeling the pinch of competition, that-Sumatra cigar wrappers from the Dutch East Indies were convict-grown caused the Treasury to start investigating. Under, study also were rubber imports from slave-ridden Liberia, phosphates from Morocco...
...these gloomy items of the week faded for a moment before two other important developments: Independent producers were cheered by the prospect of a Federal embargo on petroleum imports to the U. S. Corporate producers were cheered by a court decision in favor of the much-discussed merger plan of Standard Oil Company of New York and Vacuum...
...Embargo, When Oil was not placed in the new Tariff Act last Spring, observers said that independent oilmen had shot their bolt. But the independents were not defeated so easily. Every time they have gathered, their cry of "Stop those imports!" has been more and more determined...
Last week the independents cheered when the Senate Commerce Committee voted (9-to-6) in favor of the Capper Bill which provides for a reduction in crude imports to 16,000,000 bbl. per year for the next three years, and a total embargo on gasoline during this time...