Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...popular government is to remain effective. The giving of political privilege to the educationally and hence politically incompetent has made a farce of Democracy in Italy, Spain, and Russia, and all but destroyed it in those countries. The need for good government in Democratic nations is thus a sanction for universal education and, conversely, the success of democratic government in the more literate countries suggests that the educative efforts have not been entirely amiss...
...Bruce: "I have stated to you before that many of my neighbors regard with great indulgence the violation of the great lunacy?the Volstead Act?because, as they conceive, that act has no true moral sanction behind it. It endeavors to pronounce something as being criminal per se that is not criminal...
...bless, protect and guide dear Willie." To Edward VII (her son, at the age of 28, then Prince of Wales): "Dear Bertie: I have heard from Mr. Disraeli on the subject of your going to Ireland, and as the Government seems to wish it so much I will naturally sanction it. But I must regret that the occasion chosen should be 'races,' as it naturally strengthens the belief, already far too prevalent, that your chief object is amusement; and races have become so bad of late, and the connection with them has ruined so many young...
...departure. Hitherto Congress has specified where and what buildings were to be built and for how much?a proceeding which produced the old "pork barrel practice," every Congressman angling to get a fine building for his community. It was recognized that the President would never sanction an old-fashioned pork barrell bill, and since many buildings are badly needed this bill was passed with Administration approval. It was passed by a parliamentary maneuver?suspension of the rules?which prevented the offering of amendments and cut down debate to less than an hour but required a two-thirds vote for passage...
...withdraw more water from Lake Michigan for sanitary purposes than is now allowed: "Chicago now presents the brazen spectacle of undertaking to induce the national Congress to sanctify a bold theft into an honest act. We strenuously protest against any legislation at the hands of Congress that may sanction the abstraction of water likely to lower the levels of the Great Lakes...