Word: sanctioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seasongood declared that there has been an altered point of view in recent years towards city and county government. Home rule has accrued more and more power to itself, and with legal sanction, until today some cities own public utilities, regulate housing, and even determine the esthetic value of the beauty of billboards along the public highways. He stated: "New questions are constantly arising for decision and the old, with slight variations, are being re-examined and distinguished in the light of newer interest and popular sympathy which subconsciously influence judicial decision. Progress is not constant and steady. There...
...little practical effect. The reason for this is that the undergraduate is ignorant of the initial step which will take him out of the sheltered university into practical political life. In England the Universities are the feeders for the civil service and for Parliament, and the undergraduate has the sanction of precedent and the encouragement of public opinion, which recognizes what he is trying to do and applauds him for it. Here, except in the diplomatic service, there is no such charted course...
...conquest of Gaul by Caesar." Republican administrations, he declared, encouraged an "orgy of stock speculation" and President Coolidge "figuratively jumped into the stockpit and cheered on the gamblers." Billions of dollars of foreign securities "now practically worthless" were dumped on the U. S. market. The State Department "without sanction of law" usurped the function of passing on these loans and was therefore "implicated" in the disaster. When the Senate unanimously ordered it to desist as financial censor, Secretary Stimson brushed aside the order "with a contempt that entitled him to impeachment." Declared Senator Glass...
...House Plan once an abstraction is now a reality in brick and mortar and circumstances are at work moulding the "corporate personality" of every House from within while wind and weather and the long suffering ivy are giving the sanction of age to the naked glory without. It is inevitable and desirable that each House should develop its own individual tradition but it should not do so at the expense of any of its legitimate and important functions...
Last week there was an announcement of changes at Philadelphia. Depression makes a difference. In Boston this summer it seemed to make audiences prefer sad music to merry music (TIME, July 18). In Philadelphia next season, with the sanction of Conductor Stokowski, the programs will be "almost entirely devoted to the acknowledged masterpieces." The directors of the orchestra feel that "audiences prefer music which they know and love, and that performances of debatable music should be postponed until a more suitable time...