Word: sanction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Executive Reorganization?"A special joint committee has been appointed to work out a plan for reorganization of the different Departments and Bureaus of the Government. With the exception of the consolidation of the War and Navy Departments and some minor details, the plan has the general sanction of the President and the Cabinet. It is important that reorganization be enacted into law at the present session...
...posted on all bulletin boards yesterday stating in brief that the undersigned favored the adoption of that sport for Radcliffe students. By evening approximately eighty signatures had been appended to the resolution. An undergraduate prominent in the movement when questioned last night admitted that the idea had no official sanction either from the authorities or the Radcliffe Student Council. The hope of the leaders, she explained, was merely to stir up popular demand with the expectation that if they did so pressure could be brought to bear, and definite plans could be made to begin rowing in the spring...
...with metropolitan chapters is, however, according to the statement of a Harvard Klansman, merely temporary and attempts are being made by some of the Harvard members to reorganize. Unfortunately for the success of their attempts it is unlikely that any distinct Harvard Klan can be given official and regular sanction by the officers of the national organization, for it is against their policy to approve distinct college chapters. Moreover the national officers, as well as some of the Harvard Klansmen, seem to fear the application of the University's rules against secret societies. Parietal Regulation number 31 declares that "every...
...give Rabbi Stephen S. Wise a message to be delivered to the American Jewish Congress, convening in Manhattan. In it the President declared: " This Administration will continue to refuse sanction and tolerance to any anti-Jewish discrimination...
...singers are recruited from without. These Roman singers are popularly known as the Sistine* Choir. They continue the traditions of the old official choir. Their leader, Don Antonio Rella, has an official title, " Perpetual Vice-Director of the Pontifical Chapel." The choir crosses the seas without the official sanction of Pope Pius XI, but apparently with his consent...