Word: reines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York, and the 125,000 registered members and 400 clergy of the crowded 4,763-square-mile diocese soon learned that they would have to toe a straight ecclesiastical line. Firmly championing the sanctity of marriage as defined in the canons of the Episcopal Church, he kept a tight rein on ministers who might be tempted to stretch the rules a little in order to allow the divorced to remarry. He made newspaper headlines in 1921 by preventing the Rev. Percy Stickney Grant from marrying a divorcee, and again in 1926 by attacking the Roman Catholic Church for annulling...
Mulholland's resolution puts no Council-imposed restrictions on existing or new organizations. Its main effect will be to provide free rein for the formation of new organizations...
Sixth Ahead? As a merchandiser, he keeps a tight rein on management at the top level, yet gives his local managers plenty of leeway to run their stores. Like other loosely connected chains, City Stores cuts costs by centralized buying and cost control, hopes to do better the bigger it gets...
Remarkable Reform. By 1947, some of the boys were running wild enough-gambling and crapshooting in dark corners of the Capitol-to make Congress yank the rein. The old school was replaced by the present District branch; an age limit of 14 to 18 was set; closer control was imposed on after-hours activities. At the same time, tuition was dropped, salaries boosted, and uniforms of all pages made uniform, except for the knee-breeches which the Supreme Court still requires...
...Prerogative. Doughty Sir Thomas himself had no intention of disappointing anyone. Boomed he: "I intend to make a bigger noise than ever ... I believe in the free use of an unbridled tongue. I am glad I have one." Earlier in the week, he had proved it still wagged without rein. Looking like a ferocious teddy-bear, he interrupted a Mozart concert to glower at his Glyndebourne audience, tell them to stop stomping out the beat. Said he: "I feel this is a prerogative which in this instance must be left to me." A few days later, he showed the Liverpool...