Word: sanctioner
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...Official sanction for the trip must come ultimately from the faculty committee on athletics. The H.A.A. has given its approval although no formal request has been made from the teams involved...
...difficult to see how ethical and even Christian sanction can be claimed for such a policy. I must respect the sincerity of Mr. Dulles, a fellow churchman; but I earnestly beg him to beware of what Britain's leading Methodist, Dr. Donald Soper, has just called "forging God's signature to our plans...
Niebuhr attacks the frequent clerical fallacy that under socialism "motives of service" would supplant the "profit motive." That idea "invested a collectivist system with a moral sanction it did not deserve . . . The so-called 'profit motive' can hardly be eliminated under any system . . . Every parson who speaks grandly about supplanting [it] exemplifies it when he moves to a new charge because the old one did not give him ... a salary adequate for his growing family...
Many considered it a moral issue, and believed any testimony inferred their sanction to the committee's proceedings. Some felt that they had a perfect legal right to remain silent, for if they once spoke witnesses would be produced by the committee's to corner them on grounds of perjury. Even among the foremost legal minds in the nation there was no agreement. Morris L. Ernst, in an explanation of the problems confronting those who testified, wrote the following to the CRIMSON...
...taking the Naval Air Station at Anaoostia as the boathouse, storing the shells in the hangars. The Navy arranged for all the proceedings and provided its top brass, Secretary of the Navy Robert Anderson, in his yacht, the Sequola, to present the Rowe Cup and give the Regatta official sanction...