Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt's Senate spokesman on Neutrality, Chairman Key Pittman of the Foreign Relations Committee, brought forth a plan to amend the present law so that the President need no longer prohibit munitions sales to belligerent nations, but only forbid U. S. ships to transport any goods to belligerents and U. S. nationals to travel on belligerents' ships. A "cash & carry" plan for all exports to belligerents would obviously work against Adolf Hitler, who in case of war with England and France would lack both cash to buy and ships to carry...
...bureaus and agencies, called some of them outright "enemies of conservation." Of the Bureau of Fisheries: "The exhaustion of fish resources has no parallel." Of the CCC: "The opportunity for tremendous advancement was largely muffed." Of the Bureau of Public Lands: "... a past record of exploitation crimes which prohibit its claim to any part in national conservation." Of the average citizen: "As unconscious of the objectives ... of national planning as Ferdinand the Bull. . . . Both of them just love to smell flowers, but that is as far as they go." And having said his say, disgruntled "Ding" resigned...
...election (see p. 16). Leader Barkley admitting Mr. Hopkins had been indiscreet, nevertheless marshaled his Administration cohorts to defeat every effort to attach penalties, however light, to political use of relief billions. New Mexico's Hatch, a Democrat, and Vermont's Austin, a Republican, each tried to prohibit WPA administrative employes from taking active part in elections. Each was voted down by a close margin, the first by three votes and the second...
Because regatta rules prohibit professional coaches from accompanying oarsmen in the yearly classic, Bert Haines will have to go along as a rigger, while Robert F. Herrick '90 takes over the mentor position...
Washington's first shock, at the nature of Mr. Childs's findings, was succeeded by its second, as to how he had made them. Court dignity as well as obvious conventions naturally prohibit members from gossiping about each other to the press. Nonetheless, Mr. Childs is such a good friend of Justice Harlan F. Stone that by last week he and Justice Stone's office both felt called upon to deny that Mr. Stone had been Mr. Childs's chief source of information. By this time Scripps Howard Columnist Raymond Clapper had written a column corroborating...