Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt started it. In Hyde Park, where he had gone to vote, visit his mother, catch cold and be serenaded by shivering villagers after the Republicans swept the county, he told reporters what he thought of the transfer of U. S. ships to foreign flags...
...along with the Keep America out of War Congress, the National Maritime Union, and Columnists Krock, Denny, Flynn, Thompson, et al. No, said that old Border Statesman Cordell Hull of Pickett County, Tenn., Secretary of State through the 2,445 days of the first two administrations of Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...States Lines to the flag of the Republic of Panama. Banned from belligerent ports, banned from their regular North Atlantic runs because of the combat-areas provision of the Neutrality Act*, these vessels could travel to these ports under the Panama flag, could, moreover, carry arms. And although President Roosevelt announced he was holding up the transfer pending investigation, he expressed his opinion that the transfer did not violate the Neutrality Act because: 1) the U. S. would have no jurisdiction over the ships, and 2) they could not carry U. S. crews...
...against this opposition the U. S. Government went swiftly ahead with its preparation of a formula to deal with Latin-American debts. Franklin Roosevelt last fortnight had expressed disgust with the slow operations of the Foreign Bondholders Protective Council, which, he felt, should long ago have reached an inter-American understanding on the $1,000,000,000 Latin-American bonds held by U. S. citizens...
Weapon. For the first time in history, the antitrust division is ready, willing, able. In Theodore Roosevelt's trust-blustering days-13 years after the passage of the antitrust act-the U. S. had five lawyers and four stenographers to enforce action on the law. In 1933 there were 18 people in the antitrust division of the Justice Department. Their major problem was to keep awake in the warm Washington afternoons. Last week Mr. Arnold had behind him upwards of 160 lawyers, all of them loaded with shrapnel and ready to fire...