Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Cool Reason. When agitation against Soviet trade reached its peak, a breath of cool reason from the White House blew on the hotheads. President Hoover declared that the U. S. would not discriminate against Russia in enforcing the tariff law. Politics and economics were to be kept separate. Said a Voice that sounded like the President...
...moment the Treasury Department drew a sharp economic sword, brandished it menacingly at Soviet Russia. Anti-Reds clamored for a general onslaught upon U. S.-U. S. S. R. trade. Last week the Treasury thrust its weapon back into the scabbard...
...through Amtorg Trading Corp. from Archangel (TIME, August 4). His authority: Section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930 which prohibits importation of "all goods, wares, articles and merchandise mined, produced or manufactured wholly or in part in any foreign country by convict labor." His reason: secret evidence that Soviet political prisoners were logging the forests of North Russia. Pressed for details, he would only say: "We haven't gone off half-cocked in this matter...
Prejudice? The suspicion that Mr. Lowman's personal prejudice against Communism was involved with his enforcement of the tariff law grew when he gave the New York Herald Tribune an inflammatory interview against the Soviet program. Excerpts...
Loudest Voice. Matthew Woll, third vice president of the American Federation of Labor, raised the loudest voice in favor of an embargo against all Soviet goods. Claiming to represent 500,000 workmen as the head of the Wage Earners Protective Association, he talked of invoking a similar embargo against convict-made goods from Fascist Italy. His language became so intemperate that William Green, president of the A. F. of L., was forced to disavow him as a spokesman for that organization...