Word: sanction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...committees. The Executive Committee also approved a petition to grant H seconds to members of this year's second hockey team who were able to play only one of their regular games due to poor weather conditions. The petition will now be sent to the Athletic Committee for their sanction. The final action of the Committee was to pass a vote of thanks to Richard Chute '22, retiring president of the Student Council, in recognition of his services this year...
...Council approved the appointment of several University and Freshman managers as well as the award of insignia to the members of the University squash team, but the action of the Athletic Committee is needed in order to sanction these...
...Boxing has been recognized as an intra-college sport at the University for several years past, but as yet no official sanction for outside matches has been secured. Opposition to contests away from Cambridge has been repeatedly manifested by various officers of the University, who favor an increase of intramural competition in all branches of athletics. It is felt at the H. A. A. that there are several obstacles in the way of ratification of the petition. An objection is to be found in the fact that some of the spectators are likely to take the wrong attitude. In addition...
After it finally became evident that the program of the administration had failed, an unofficial American delegation was appointed with the sanction of the European Powers to sit at the meetings of the reparations committee. These deputies, even in their unofficial capacity, were able to save millions of dollars to American interests from the ruins of European finance. The approach of a new presidential term, however, forced the recall of the delegation; and left the United States with some fourteen billions of dollars owed us from abroad--unrepresented at the conference...
Last year he refused to sanction the deportation of the alien "reds", without due process of law, regardless of their legal liability to deportation. As a result he became the center of congressional and newspaper discussion and was called before a committee of Congress, to testify in his own defense...