Word: sanctioneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...private sanatorium, but Leonard has taken up with a new one-crafty Jack Kearn, onetime manager of Jack Dempsey, present manager of Mickey Walker. Manager Kearns planned a fight between Benny Leonard and Dave Shade in Chicago this month, which the Illinois Boxing Commission promptly refused to sanction; a subsequent campaign for the lightweight, welterweight and middleweight championships. Promoter Jimmy Johnston remembered he had a seven-year-old contract for a fight between Leonard and Walker, hoped to utilize...
...drawn from questionnaire-answers of 19372 clergymen of 13 arbitrarily selected Protestant sects, tabulation of which was completed last week in Manhattan.* Specifically they stated that among this interested 20% of the more than 100,000 Protestant pastors in the land. 62% would have the churches withdraw their sanction from any war whatsoever, 54% personally would refuse to take up arms, 83% were opposed to military training in schools and colleges, 80% favored substantial reduction of armaments even if the U. S. were to expose itself by preceding the other nations. Yet the large section represented by 45% could conscientiously...
...show them how to smooth over their difficulties." If this fails, the professor would have the case brought before an Episcopal bishop, who should decide "by the facts of the case, and not by any set rule," whether to allow the couple to separate and remarry under the sanction of the church...
With Democrats clamoring for identification of the wage-cutting "financial interests," President Hoover next day put a bright face on the situation. He did not deny pressure by individual industrialists on him to sanction reductions. But he did deny the existence in the land of any "organized movement to cut wages." He was "thoroughly satisfied" that the "leading industries" were keeping faith with the White House...
...better off. As long as the participants are bound by the restrictions imposed by the allies in the peace treaties, the union can not be politically aggressive. For France can always check the actual union of the two countries through the Council of the League, which must give its sanction to any undertaking involving the violation of Austrian sovereignty...