Word: edicted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obedience to Admiral Richard Henry Leigh's edict against Navy profanity (TIME, May 29), Secretary of the Navy Claude Augustus Swanson announced that he had "stopped cussin...
Power to alter this national flag is not vested in the President, even by Article 48 which permits him to invoke many extraordinary powers. Therefore last week Old Paul broke his oath and violated the Constitution when he issued an edict triumphantly read to Germans over the radio at 2 p. m. by Chancellor Adolf Hitler...
While most Germans were staggered by this edict, the Official German Press Censor nonchalantly passed the following comment by Correspondent John Elliott, Chief of the New York Herald Tribune's Berlin Bureau: "The prestige of President von Hindenburg among the Republican portion of the population is completely ruined by today's developments. He no longer commands the confidence of the entire nation as he did a year ago. He was re-elected at that time by the Republican vote in the confident expectation that he would preserve the Constitution. In this belief the German Republicans have been sorely...
Speaking for himself, after he had quoted Old Paul's edict, Handsome Adolf cried: "The President has ordained that the banner of the National Revolution from now on is to fly on State and public buildings by the side of our unforgettable and time-honored banner of the old German Reich! By this marriage the victory of the National Revolution is made outwardly visible. A 14-year battle for power has now found its symbolic conclusion. It is up to us to see that this power never again is wrested from...
...Federal Court to do it. Three Federal judges had ordered the Texas Rail-road Commission to cease & desist from enforcing its proration regulations until the conservation law could be reviewed. Governor Sterling, eying the chaos around him, set about enforcing proration come what might. He maintained that his edict could not be reviewed by Federal judges. "But." said the Supreme Court, "if this extreme position could be deemed to be well taken, it is manifest that the fiat of a State Governor, and not the Constitution of the U. S., would be the supreme law of the land. . . . When there...