Word: sanctioneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bureau shall suspend all further activity in the reception of applicants, until such time as judicial... or legislative sanction can be secured, and that all cases now pending shall be turned over to the Boston Legal Aid Society or to such other attorneys or agencies as each case may require...
...Sanctions Mean War!" Such action is called in League parlance "invoking sanctions." In law a sanction is any measure applied to a wrongdoer to make him comply with what the community has made right and legal. Sanctions contemplated by the Covenant of the League are of four kinds: 1) moral and diplomatic measures, such as recalling all diplomats accredited to the wrong-doing State; 2) financial and economic measures, such as refusing further credit; 3) international boycott, to deprive the wrongdoer of all trade; and 4) force, or the declaration of war on the wrongdoer by League States...
...earning his two million a year. Why not tell the American people the truth- that they are faced with a life & death struggle with a powerful European and Asiatic coalition? Does anyone suppose Japan would be flouting the Nine-Power agreement if she did not have English sanction? England has said "go ahead," for soon it will be England's turn to demand favors from Japan-close co-operation in a war against the U. S. Where are America's friends? There is an alliance between France and Russia that will soon be a three-power pact with...
...Holland, etc. So long as hostilities are to take place in the East, Britain is concerned only indirectly, and can hardly be expected to enter into alliances with France and Italy which commit her beyond all recall. To use a phrase dear to Grey, "British public opinion would never sanction" such a commitment. Britain is unlikely to do more than express her strong disapproval of recent events in Germany. She will doubtless indulge herself, through the mouths of Sir John Simon and Ramsay MacDonald, in many pious wishes, none of which, because of the armament situation, are possible of solution...
From Rome every year a number of black-cassocked seminarians go home on vacation, take unto themselves wives, bed them legally. Presently, with the sanction of the Roman Catholic Church, these youths are ordained subdeacons. Later, men of family though they may be, they become priests. Unique in the Catholic clergy, such married priests are members of certain Uniat sects once estranged from Rome, now reunited, differing slightly in practice but accepting the full authority of the Pope...