Word: jure
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reorganization bill had passed, Harry Hopkins would have become de jure what he is de facto-an important member of the President's Cabinet. He may yet do so next session. If and when a new Department of Welfare is created, it will doubtless be staffed by Harry Hopkins' present crew headed by idealistic Chief Deputy Administrator Aubrey Willis Williams who also is chief of the National Youth Administration. As a new Department of the Government, WPA would come in full-fledged and ramified to a degree rivaling even what Herbert Hoover made of Commerce, what lazy thinking...
...legal language, what this amounted to was de facto recognition of Hitler's coup, which was far from equivalent to de jure approval. With his official announcement, Mr. Hull gave out a curt statement: "The extent to which the Austrian incident . . . is calculated to endanger the maintenance of peace and the preservation of principles in which this Government believes is of course a matter of serious concern to the Government. . . ." And two days earlier, following Messrs. Chamberlain, Hitler and Mussolini in one of the most extraordinary series of statements of international policies on record, he had clearly if somewhat...
...clear that Messrs. Braddock, Louis, Schmeling, Gould, Kilpatrick, Roxborough, Johnston, Jacobs (bis), the Chicago promoters and the esteemed New York Athletic Commission intend to go right ahead with whatever they are doing in this heavyweight matter, 'de jure' or by 'force majeure' (Lincoln v. Douglas, 1860, U. S., and McLarnin v. Canzoneri, N. Y., 1936) and the whole action is thus left in escrow. Whatever the verdict, the promoters will pay costs...
...credentials of each delegation. The status of credentials will be considered from two angles: (1) whether or not the head of the state is still in a position to exercise his legal title effectively; and (2) whether or not the government from which the credentials emanate is the de jure as well as the de facto government...
...George is in fact a commoner, the usual flurry ensued as Englishmen turned to their Encyclopedia Britannica and once more were titillated by this technicality: "The children of the Sovereign, other than his eldest son, though by courtesy 'princes' and 'princesses,' need a royal warrant to raise them de jure above the common herd; and even then, though they be dubbed 'Royal Highness' in their cradles, they remain 'commoners' till raised to the peerage...