Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...want beverage without food, however, he has planned his piece de resistance. This is to be a combination of the best features of the English pub or alehouse, and the tavern. Since this would be a vital part of the life of the college, it should have some official sanction. The proprietor would be elected by the graduates, or by representatives of the students and faculty in caucus, or perhaps he should be some sort of self-perpetuating body, to insure stability and quality in the cellar-stock...
...prerogative to the secrecy which has been denied the Interstate Commerce Commission or the Federal Reserve Board. Although it is futile to talk of imminent dictatorships, so palpable a breach of public confidence as privacy in this matter would have entailed is certainly incongruous with a republican sanction. And there were, moreover, many details in the report which proved illuminating to the political observer, such as the staggering loans made to a Corporation member's bank on the day after his resignation...
...sanction of the electorate is the most valid of republican sanctions, and that sanction Mr. Roosevelt undeniably possesses. His campaign, with its pledges of drastic reduction of expenditure, was couched unequivocally in the first person singular. Repeatedly he made the statement that his administration would face extraordinary problems, and the assumption that his personal powers must be exceptional was in no way veiled. The national faith in legislative remedies, and congressional budget balancing, has been seriously impaired, and it was as a result of Mr. Roosevelt's unmistakably pragmatic conception of the presidency that much of his overwhelming support...
...picayune economies. One may find this analysis of the situation too narrow, too concentrated on the international and monetary aspects of the depression; one may disagree with the conservative capitalistic solution offered, but at least the analysis is supported by a multitude of statistics, and the solution gives the sanction of banking circles to practical measures long advocated by economists...
...lost $100,000, largely through writing off the cost of permanent buildings. Last year the loss was $17,000. Few weeks ago Managing Director Clifford Henderson began looking about the country to see what city would like to borrow the 1933 races, the borrower to pay the $12,500 sanction. He visited Chicago, went last week to Los Angeles where he managed his first races in 1928. No results were made public...