* 1939 – World War II: U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons by belligerents.

The United States, concerned with events in Europe and Asia, passed the Neutrality Act in August.

* November 4 – WWII: U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons to non-belligerent nations.

Neutrality Act may refer to:

* Neutrality Act of 1794, outlaws military operations against nations with which the U. S. is at peace ; still in force in amended form

* Neutrality Act of 1818

He also declared a " moral embargo " against the belligerents, covering trade not falling under the Neutrality Act.

The Neutrality Act of 1936, passed in February of that year, renewed the provisions of the 1935 act for another 14 months.

The Neutrality Act of 1937, passed in May, included the provisions of the earlier acts, this time without expiration date, and extended them to cover civil wars as well.

Roosevelt invoked the provisions of the Neutrality Act but came before Congress and lamented that the Neutrality Acts may give passive aid to an aggressor.

He prevailed over the isolationists, and on November 4 the Neutrality Act of 1939 was passed, allowing for arms trade with belligerent nations on a cash-and-carry basis, thus in effect ending the arms embargo.

Furthermore, the Neutrality Acts of 1935 and 1937 were repealed, American citizens and ships were barred from entering war zones designated by the President, and the National Munitions Control Board ( which had been created by the 1935 Neutrality Act ) was charged with issuing licenses for all arms imports and exports.

* Neutrality Act of August 31, 1935

* Neutrality Act of February 29, 1936

* Neutrality Act of May 1, 1937

Although the Washington Administration had declared that the treaty remained valid, President Washington's formal Proclamation of Neutrality, and the subsequent Neutrality Act of 1794, effectively invalidated the military provisions of the treaty and touched off a period of increasingly deteriorated relations between the two nations.

When Congress repealed the Neutrality Act in November 1939 to permit the selling of aircraft to the belligerents, Arnold became concerned that shipments of planes to the Allies slowed delivery to the Air Corps, particularly since control of the allotment of aircraft production had been given to the Procurement Division of the Treasury Department in December 1938, and by extension, to Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr., a White House favorite.

The defendants face possible life prison terms for violation of the U. S. Neutrality Act and various weapons charges.

The America First Committee launched a petition aimed at enforcing the 1939 Neutrality Act and forcing President Franklin D. Roosevelt to keep his pledge to keep America out of the war.

Mackenzie went to the United States where he was arrested and charged under the Neutrality Act.

Purchases were then made by the Chinese under the " Cash and Carry " provision of the Neutrality Act of 1939.

Following the sinking of the U. S. destroyer on October 31, many of the provisions of the Neutrality Acts were repealed on November 17, 1941: merchant vessels were allowed to be armed and to carry any cargoes to belligerent nations.

**" John Bull ’ s Neutrality ", 1 November, 1862

* November 4, 1939: World War II: President Roosevelt ordered the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons to non-belligerent nations.

* November 4, 1939: Neutrality Act of 1939, (" Cash and Carry Act "), ch.

On June 4, 2007, following a lengthy federal investigation labeled " Operation Tarnished Eagle ," warrants were issued by U. S. federal courts ordering the arrest of Vang Pao and nine others for allegedly plotting to overthrow the communist government of Laos, in violation of the federal Neutrality Acts.

The Neutrality Patrol, organized on September 4, 1939 as a response to the war in Europe, was ordered to track and report the movements of any warlike operations of belligerents in the waters of the western hemisphere.

* 29 September, The Yorkshire Treaty of Neutrality was signed, but was repudiated by Parliament 4 October.

* In Time of War: Ireland, Ulster and the Price of Neutrality, 1939 – 1945 ( 2001 ).

The findings of the committee gave momentum to the non-interventionist movement and sparked the passage of the Neutrality Acts of 1930s, in 1935, 1936, 1937, and 1939.

The first came in 1939 with the passage of the Fourth Neutrality Act, which permitted the United States to trade arms with belligerent nations, as long as these nations came to America to retrieve the arms, and pay for them in cash.

A court case allowing the União do Vegetal to import and use the tea for religious purposes in the United States, Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal, was heard by the U. S. Supreme Court on November 1, 2005 ; the decision, released February 21, 2006, allows the UDV to use the tea in its ceremonies pursuant to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

On November 1, 2005, Germany enacted the “ Act on Model Case Proceedings in Disputes under Capital Markets Law ( Capital Markets Model Case Act )” allowing sample proceedings to be brought before the courts in litigation arising from mass capital markets transactions.

By comparison, the former colony of the United Province of Canada ( divided into the District of Canada East, and the District of Canada West ) and the western provinces were dozens of times larger and in some cases were expanded to take in territory formerly held in British Crown grants to companies such as the Hudson's Bay Company ; in particular the November 19, 1869 sale of Rupert's Land to the Government of Canada under the Rupert's Land Act 1868 was facilitated in part by Maritime taxpayers.

The double jeopardy rule no longer applies absolutely in Scotland since the Double Jeopardy ( Scotland ) Act 2011 came into force on 28 November 2011.

At Atchison's request, Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which embodied this idea, in November 1853.

In Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal, the Supreme Court heard arguments on November 1, 2005 and unanimously ruled in February 2006 that the U. S. federal government must allow the UDV to import and consume the tea for religious ceremonies under the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

Enya was awarded the World's Best-Selling Irish Act award at the World Music Awards in London on 19 November 2006.

The non-socialist majority in the new Finnish Parliament took power on 15 November, on the model of the Power Act of the socialists in July 1917, and promptly accepted the Social Democratic proposals from July 1917 for an eight-hour working day and universal suffrage in local elections.

In January 1606, during the first sitting of Parliament since the plot, the Observance of 5th November Act 1605 was passed, making services and sermons commemorating the event an annual feature of English life ; the act remained in force until 1859.

In the Act of 5th November 1916, the Kingdom of Poland ( Królestwo Regencyjne ) was recreated by Imperial Germany and Austria-Hungary on formerly Russian-controlled territory.

Under the amended Mental Health Act 2007, which came into force in November 2008, to be detained under Section 3 for treatment, appropriate treatment must be available in the place of detention.

In November 2005, the International Labor Rights Fund filed an Alien Tort Claims Act ( ATCA ) case against Bridgestone, the parent company of Firestone, alleging “ forced labor, the modern equivalent of slavery ”, on the Firestone Plantation in Harbel.

* 1916 – The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed by the Act of November 5th of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.

The Licensing Act 2003, which came into force on 24 November 2005, consolidated the many laws into a single Act.

On November 21, 1980, Genovese crime family boss Frank " Funzi " Tieri was the first Mafia boss to be convicted under the RICO Act.

Jonathan Swift was a strong advocate for licensing, and Daniel Defoe wrote on 8 November 1705 that with the absence of licensing, " One Man Studies Seven Year, to bring a finish'd Peice into the World, and a Pyrate Printer, Reprints his Copy immediately, and Sells it for a quarter of the Price ... these things call for an Act of Parliament ".

* The Parliament of New Zealand adopted the Statute of Westminster by passing its Statute of Westminster Adoption Act of 1947 in November 1947, well-after the end of WW II.

On November 22, 1921, President Harding signed the Revenue Act of 1921 that greatly reduced the taxes the wealthiest Americans had to pay.

On November 21, 1921, President Harding signed the Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act, the first major federal government social welfare program in the U. S. The law funded almost 3, 000 child and health centers throughout the U. S. Medical doctors were spurred to offer preventative health care measures in addition to treating ill children.

* November 5 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Railways Act, setting out the procedures for privatisation of British Rail.

* November 9-The Parliament of Singapore enacts the Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act.

* November 2 – The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123, 000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.