Word: sanctioneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strength of its success, Cleveland persuaded the National Aeronautic Association to let it keep the races for five years beginning 1931, with option to renew for five years more. Each year National Air Races of Cleveland Inc. would pay the N. A. A. a $12,500 "sanction...
...this recent action, the House has made even more obvious the anomalous position of Prohibition in the federal law. The country as a whole has expressed itself against the amendment; the House has refused to sanction the proper enforcement of it; yet with all this, the law remains on the statute books. The immediate result is that whatever other money is spent in the half-hearted enforcement is only wasted. Finally, the House is inevitably breeding contempt of all law by giving carte blanche to all to violate a provision of the national constitution...
About 18 months ago the British Government, which holds Transjordania as a Mandate, gave Emir Abdullah for his very own an extremely fertile tract of 17,500 acres beside the River Jordan. Native opinion would never sanction the leasing of public lands to Jews, and the British Government has never attempted such a course, but private lands belonging to the Emir are a different matter. Last week Emir Abdullah granted a six-month option to lease his new lands to the Palestine Jewish Agency which has been barred by Palestine Moslems from obtaining further lands there. To Britain...
...Harvard faculty desire to help the Cambridge unemployed by voluntary contributions, that is entirely their own affair. The school committee by implying that an obligation exists where there is none has taken a very efficient means of injuring its own cause. Whether or not the request receives the sanction of President Lowell on his return, any contributions received from individual professors should be recognized as private acts of charity which do not in any way indicate that the University as a Corporation, is involved...
Examples of remote control which made Albany last week's capital of the U. S.: Taxation, Newsmen pardonably assumed that Chairman Collier of the House Ways & Means Committee was speaking with the sanction of the President-elect when he declared: "I'd rather have the dentist pull my back teeth than support a sales tax, but I don't see any other alternative if we're going to balance the Budget." Chimed in Speaker Garner who as Vice President-elect is supposed to know the Roosevelt mind: "If it is necessary to have a manufacturers...