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...general rules as laid down by the University are "subject to interpretation" by masters and senior tutors, and consequently varying degrees of strictness have developed in different Houses. In one, a student simply signs a book for guests on Saturdays and Sundays, without having to obtain any official sanction; in another, permissions are dispensed with in practice; and in all Houses infringements by students of some or all of the rules are common. Uniformity cannot and should not crush out "states' rights" in the Houses, but a switch to the simpler, more sensible Oxford card system as the general principle...
President Roosevelt merely replied that he was quoting the press back at the newsmen. The implication that Hitler and Mussolini wanted him out-first advanced by Henry Wallace, offered last week by Governor Lehman-now had more than tacit sanction of the President himself. Wallace had been reproved by many people and Lehman's repetition by still more (said Oswald Garrison Villard, "It seems to me that your declaration that a vote for Willkie will be a vote for Hitler . . . touches the low-water mark of unfair, unjust and intolerable partisanship . . . playing upon passions and prejudices which you ought...
...ernment project. "Land, if you had to work it, never was free. Men paid for it in sweat and blood and loneliness, if not in dollars." Their pioneering achievements were possible because "Americans had not then been instructed that they must look to Washington for inspiration and sanction for their every act. . . . What we cannot forgive is that the New Deal, finding itself unable to restore national vitality, fashioned its plan upon the thesis that America is finished, that . . . we must look increasingly to the Government for jobs, for security, and for the oversight of our private lives...
...Korea Presbyterians have closed their schools rather than permit pupils to take part in Shrine Shinto. But elsewhere in the Japanese Empire both Catholics and Protestants, with the sanction of their home mission boards, have paid obeisance at the shrines-thereby, according to many strict believers, taking the first step in apostasy. Early Christians chose martyrdom rather than do the same thing; make a token obeisance to the deified emperor of Rome...
...kind of support the other countries could give) to the Monroe Doctrine. This he got, in the Convention of Havana, which sets up the machinery to seize and administer any European possessions in this hemisphere which are threatened with transfer of sovereignty. But Cordell Hull also wanted Pan-American sanction in case the U. S. finds it necessary to grab a colony or so before the Convention goes into effect. He got that too, in an emergency resolution...