Word: edict
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Small wonder than confidence languishes for it thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection, on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live." (Why did the President sign the Frazier-Lemke Bill, and why did he issue an edict to prevent an individual holding a ten dollar gold certificate from receiving ten dollars in gold upon demand? Or isn't such a note a "sacred obligation...
...When it issues an edict making it possible to put a man in prison and fine him $10,000 for refusing to turn over HIS gold to the government...
Annually University Hall is faced with the problem of solicitation in University buildings and grounds. The decision made by the Administration last spring, and the recent edict by Dean Hanford, although fully clarifying the University attitude, fails to do away with the situation which arise and which will continue to arise, under existing conditions. So long as an unlimited number of laundry and pressing agencies are permitted to exist, there is bound to be solicitation, whether underhand or otherwise, and competition which precludes the possibility of profit on the part of these numerous agencies. Two courses are open the laundry...
This stiff edict from a 38-year-old ex-top sergeant of Marines left Hopewell feeling decidedly hopeless. Union leaders sneered "Bluff," accused the company of trying to starve its workers into submission, planned an appeal to the U. S. Labor Relations Board. But nowhere in the New Deal could they find any provision for compelling Capital, once it went on strike, to go back to work against its will...
...that year Roman Emperor Diocletian banned local coinage to introduce a standard monetary unit of his own. Thus, if the four-celled structure was not a bank, it was the hiding-place of some Third Century miser, whose hoard had been rendered worthless by the imperial edict...