Word: sanctioneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Other outstanding examples of Tory timidity: for 20 years the British Admiralty refused to sanction steam engines for men o'war, called them visionary, impractical. The eagle-beaked Duke of Wellington spoke bitterly against the International Exhibition of 1851 because it would "bring too many strangers into the country." The British Museum Library has consistently refused to adopt a card catalog, elaborately enters every acquisition in bulky ledgers. Excuse: "The sharp bits of pasteboard are apt to cut one's fingers...
...mother roles? ... I have plenty of money. . . . I want to improve my mind. . . . Most of the time you will find me bobbing around Europe. . . ." White Cargo (British). Several U. S. picture companies wanted to produce this, but Will Hays, supervisor of cinema morals, made clear that he would not sanction it. With W. Somerset Maugham's Rain it was salient on his black list. At last United Artists made Rain with Gloria Swanson, calling it Sadie Thompson; Hays permitted its release, but when producers pointed to this precedent as an argument for letting them bring out White Cargo, even...
...cannot but feel that for this conference . . .to sanction an instrument of war, the abuses of which were directly responsible for calling the western world into the greatest European war of history, would be a contradiction of the purposes for which we have...
...which from the numbers of spectators and participants has evidenced its extreme popularity. It has ranked with crew and track as one of the most popular winter sports, but has failed to secure recognition as a minor sport here on account of the Student Council's persistent refusal to sanction...
...action of the United States Lawn Tennis Association in approving open tennis tournaments should receive hearty approval from all followers of the sport. Now if the International Tennis Federation which meets next month in Paris gives its final sanction to the plan, we will at last see professional tennis on a sound basis. Incidentally it seems almost a foregone conclusion that the Paris court solons will pass on the open tourney proposition...