Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reorganization Metropolitan Life lost patience and the Drake went into receivership. The receiver, holding contract-breaking powers and no particular regard for the Drake Brothers' feelings, promptly ordered them to pay for their own parties and furthermore pay rent. When the Drakes did neither, the receiver sought court sanction to oust them. The Brothers Drake and their wives also went to court, arguing that the contract was an operating charge and therefore a prior lien on the property. Last week while the courts pondered the case, the Drakes were still in their nine-room suites...
...first step called for a series of Washington conferences with the producers and processors of each basic commodity to shape up an operating program on marketing agreements. If most millers consent to buy wheat from growers at $1 per bu., Secretary Wallace can suspend the anti-trust law to sanction such a bargain. If a minority group of millers refuse to join the agreement and try to beat wheat down to 80?, Secretary Wallace can, under the law. coerce them into line by suspending their Federal licenses as processors and penalizing them $1,000 each day they continue without...
...given of the outbreak of large scale hostilities immediately north of Peiping." Meanwhile the retreating Japanese had made a left swing, showed up north of Peiping. To squelch Chiang Kai-shek's soldiers the new advance will "probably be on a larger scale than heretofore, requiring the special sanction of the Emperor...
...contrary to the 14th Amendment. Declared Judge Lowell: "The only persons who would get any good out of it would be the lawyers. The whole thing is absolutely wrong. It goes against my Yankee common sense. I'd rather be wrong on my law than give my sanction to legal nonsense. They say justice is blind but it is not blind as a bat." Judge Lowell's decision did not actually free George Crawford because Massachusetts continued to hold the prisoner on $25,000 bail pending an appeal to a special session of the U. S. Circuit Court...
Both the unsuccessful early-morning raid on the CRIMSON building and the abduction of Boyd were admittedly carried out to secure publicity for the Lampoon's forthcoming parody of Fortune. The group of editors who staged the raid had received only the half-hearted sanction of the responsible officers of the magazine and was composed largely of members of the business board, led by the treasurer, whose resignation is believed to have been requested last night...