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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Diaz was elected. Instant Recognition. U. S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg assumedly heaved a sigh of relief at the turn of Nicaraguan affairs, last week, for he immediately extended recognition. President Diaz, tactful, was moved in a burst of gratitude to the U. S. to sanction the long mooted sale of 51% of the stock of the Nicaragua National Bank to the Guarantee Trust Co. of Manhattan, an institution which has more than once made history in Latin America. Said President Diaz, to blast any suspicion of U. S. "dollar diplomacy": "If the Bank of Nicaragua had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Evil Eye? | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

Since the Roman Catholic Church does not sanction divorce the alternative of annulling the Duke's first marriage has two effects: 1) It removes any possible taint of ecclesiastical bigamy from his second marriage in Roman Catholic eyes and makes it possible for him to enter that Church. 2) It regularizes the second marriage of Consuelo Vanderbilt and sets at ease any qualms of her Roman Catholic husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Duke Regularized | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

...CRIMSON cannot but regret this latest action on the part of the Law School authorities. A system of compulsory attendance, compulsory preparation for classes, compulsory extra-curricular work, enforced by the sanction of expulsion, has been recognized to be unsuitable for undergraduate education. Certainly, it can find no proper sphere of application in a graduate, and above all, in a professional school. It is hoped that the recent incident is merely a temporary lapse and does not mark a new departure in Law School policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "PRIMA FACIE UNDESIRABLE" | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

...What Is Sanction of Big Three...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The "Lampoon Affair" Ibis Explains; the Prince Comments One Suggestion | 11/10/1926 | See Source »

What is the sanction and purpose of the Big Three? The time is long past when they could claim athletic supremacy over other colleges. They are exceeded in numbers and wealth. Is the title one of conceit and vain-glory? If such it should cease. Fundamentally the Big Three represents an ideal; the belief in the power of education as a personal force in a man's life. The Big Three believes that college must give a man a sense of selfcontrol, an appreciation of beauty, a philosophy of life. Athletics represent but a small part of that ideal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The "Lampoon Affair" Ibis Explains; the Prince Comments One Suggestion | 11/10/1926 | See Source »

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