Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conditions were apt to be more favorable earlier in the day, and for that reason the hour for the Basin regattas had been advanced from 4 to 2 o'clock in recent years, W. J. Bingham '16, director of Athletics, declared that it was unlikely that College authorities would sanction the proposal on account of classes. A similar opinion was expressed by Coaches Haines and Sullivan...
...result of the White House conference was to increase the crop of rumors to the effect that President Roosevelt was dangerously close to losing control of Congress. Without White House sanction the Senate had passed a 30-hour work week (see p. 12). Under the mistaken notion that it was "emergency legislation" from the President, the House had whipped through a censorship bill that outraged the Press. Committee chairmen balked at sponsoring important White House measures. Democratic Senators could be privately heard muttering about "a President who thinks he always has to be doing something, right or wrong." The college...
...public meeting to condemn Fascism in Germany is to be held under the auspices of the Harvard Liberal Club, and the National Students League. To sanction such a meeting is decidedly illiberal of the Liberal Club. The subject, Fascism in Germany is far removed from issues at home; and the method, direct condemnation, far from the principles of fair discussion upon which the so called Liberal Club was organized. Such a meeting is only good for something if it wins converts and since it is couched thus, is terms of direct condemnation, taking for granted knowledge and convictions formed before...
...Hitler, who came to power in Germany as the leader of a political party professedly reactionary and illiberal, has discovered that the most omnipotent of dictators finds his action circumscribed by the enlightenment of a modern world. His Jewish policy fortified by the pragmatic sanction of a German majority, brought down upon his head an incredible volume of cant, hysterically intoned and accompanied by dark threats of boycott and ostracism. And Mr. Hitler, who is not unaware of the position of minorities in those countries which now scorn him most openly, must be pardoned if he displays a cynical unwillingness...
Chicago's Century of Progress could have had the races in consideration of $12.500, Cleveland's yearly ''sanction fee'' to the National Aeronautic Association. But Chicago preferred an arrangement announced last week. Century of Progress' President Rufus Cutler Dawes made known that Chicago will hold International Air Races Sept. 1-4. LT. S. and foreign pilots will vie for "rich cash prizes'' at Curtiss-Reynolds field, scene of the 1930 national meet...