Word: jure
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sold. Yet we see that the government is asserting its right to decide each of these things, and to decide them without accepting, as the private producer must, the responsibility for its decision. And the right which it asserts is one supported only by a de jure Austinian sovereignty, without a whit of de facto sanction...
...hands of men who are as competent in the economics as they are in the politics of recovery under capitalism. As an enthusiastic and not unbiased observer of the professional sideshow being staged by the Harvard Economics Department (de facto) and the banks versus the Columbia Economics department (de jure) and the Roosevelt legend, I cannot help but conclude that the latter group has kept more than one step ahead of the former by conjuring up a lot of cardboard windmills, notably gold buying, silver buying, and in a sense, even the N. R. A. itself, to divert the attention...
...members of. the League intend to abstain, particularly as regards the existing regime in Manchuria [i. e. the "Government of Manchukuo"] from any act which might prejudice or delay the carrying out of the recommendations of the said report. They will continue not to recognize this regime, either de jure or de facto...
Last week the U. S. centre of political gravity shifted from Washington to Albany with the ectoplasmic emergence of President-elect Roosevelt as the nation's new leader. De jure he was still Governor of New York with a hands-off policy on National Affairs. De facto he was the supreme party captain to whom Democrats in & out of the Federal capital looked for orders...
...Control of Japan by men of politics instead of men of the sword is a new-fangled arrangement, dating de jure from the reign of Emperor Meiji who introduced an Occidental (Prussian) style of Constitution in 1889 and de facto from the founding of Japan's oldest political party (Seiyukai) in 1900. Naturally the Army & Navy with their ancient traditions scorn Japanese Constitutionalism which is only in its swaddling clothes. The lower classes (both proletarians arid peasants) tend to approve each fresh assassination of a politician or financier by a civilian or a member of the fighting services...