Word: fiat
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...concerto in London with the British Broadcasting Co. Orchestra in October. Nazi authorities, seeing the honor of an important premiere slipping from under their noses, decreed that the concerto should be introduced to the world in a broadcast by Violinist Georg Kulen-kampff in Germany. The Nazi fiat was carried out November...
Sparks Sorlien took the 160-yard dash in 17 seconds fiat. Sorlien is a Varsity sprinter and broad-jumper. Freshman Robert Russell, a middle distance man, was second to Sorlien, and R. H. Abernathy, Jr. '41 was third. The 80-yard dash was won by F. G. Neal in 8.4 seconds. Partlow and Sorlien were second and third...
...Austrian hunting lodge where on a cold morning of January 1889, the heir to the Habsburg dynasty was found shot with his young and tolerably beautiful mistress, the Baroness Marie Vetsera. All those within scrutiny were sworn to life secrecy by the Emperor Franz Joseph, who issued the fiat that the pair had committed double suicide, and the incident was the subject of an official dossier inflammable enough to be excluded finally from the State archives. In the less combustible medium of celluloid, the Mayerling mystery is simplified into a classic denouement to a beautiful friendship...
...historical experience shows without cavil that this very voice of authority can turn back on the well-intentioned reformers who use it like a boomerang. In any society where liberties are crumbling away, the tendency to accomplish "reforms" by administrative fiat rather than by judicial hearings is one of the first signs of weakness. There is nothing in New York law or tradition that sanctions the practice of combining judge and jury in the single person of Mr. Moss. For someday the official inquisitor may not be so enlightened a man as Mr. Moss, and the voice of authority...
...nose dive, we would have a new bank holiday-or else. The assets of banks, trusts and insurance companies are loaded with them. The Government would almost certainly be forced to make them redeemable at par-in paper money-the ultimate spilling of the beans. The President is no fiat money man. That leaves only reduced spending. But isn't that political ruin? Is this the end of the rope...