Word: sanctioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plump, coquettish Adrienne Delamare, aged 12, wanted to marry brisk, bold-eyed Henri Pinteau, 17. Their parents not only approved-they begged that M. le President sanction by special dispensation a child marriage in violation of French law. M. le President considered the reason: a pink and squawling babe safely born Aug. 28 at which time he weighed nine pounds. "Mon Dieu," murmured President Lebrun, "Est-ce possible...
...trial of the facts of the Reichstag Fire before an "International Commission of Distinguished Jurists," meeting in the courtroom of the Law Society, without any official sanction whatsoever. Sitting in judgment last week were Arthur Garfield Hays of Manhattan, D. N. Pritt, K. C., chairman of the Commission and five others. Witnesses who asked for anonymity were given protection from reporters and photographers...
...agricultural purchasing power, up 80% since March, was to be maintained, farm prices must be protected from wild speculative slumps. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace was summoned to the White House for a heart-to-heart. Board of Trade officials put their heads together in Chicago. Upshot was Government sanction of new rules which fixed minimum prices for grain (wheat, 90? per bu.; corn, 46? per bu.; oats, 35? per bu.; rye, 69?), limited daily fluctuations to 5? for wheat and other grains in proportion...
Exactly who infringed on whose prior date is a subject of bitter words. But when the Tribune applied to the N. A. A. for sanction for its own meet on July 1-4, the N. A. A. refused, revealed that those dates were reserved for Los Angeles. Worse, the N. A. A. had also sanctioned the Daily News' "International Air Races" for Sept. 1-4. Outraged, the Tribune declared it would run its own meet without sanction. That brought forth an N. A. A. ultimatum that any pilot taking part in an unsanctioned meet would be barred from sanctioned...
...happened at Washington during the past few months? Congress has not abdicated; rather has there been extraordinary activity on the part of that body. The forms of constitutional rule have not been discarded; but care has been taken time the new role of government have about it the strict sanction of legality. The emergency we are facing demands immediate action on the part of government if it is to be met successfully. The time-consuming processes of Congress, the divergent counsel of that body, must be replaced by the quick, decisive command of one man--intelligently responsive to the necessity...