Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They were no more free than the worker or the farmer "It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. . . . "The hours men and women worked, the wages they received, the conditions of their labor-these had passed beyond the control of the people, and were imposed by this new industrial dictatorship. The savings of the average family, the capital of the small businessman, the investments set aside...
...cannot subscribe to the view that the monopolistic tendencies which had official sanction from 1920 to 1932 were conducive to prosperity, and we cannot subscribe to the view of those New Dealers who claim that their experiments in monopoly, restriction and centralized political power are in the interests of an abundant life...
...sites for public buildings, public reservations, routes for public utilities, zoning districts, pierhead and bulkhead lines and deep channels. These are a separate field from planning private property. They are the work of the community for the community, and if we have them at all, they must exist under sanction of law. They are the difference between a civilized and an uncivilized community. A municipality, state or nation without these entities is uncivilized...
...What would be the good, mon ami," he insisted, "in deciding on an oil sanction now, only to have it undone in three weeks by handing the French elections to the Rightists...
...Sanctions are slow in action," rumbled the Prime Minister, "and lose a great deal of their force unless they can be supported by the ultimate sanction which is a blockade of force. Collective security will never work unless all the nations who take part in it are prepared simultaneously to threaten with military sanctions. . . . That means that the nations taking part in that collective security must be ready...