Word: sanctions
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...Olympiad" used to mean the period of four years between Olympic Games. The Olympic Committee this year gave its sanction to the meaning created by usage?Olympiad: Olympic Games...
...voting control of that (TIME, July 25). To reimburse the banks which had financed its purchase by a group of Rochester business men, an $8,500,000 bond issue is contemplated. Though the New York Public Service Commission lashed Mr. Hopson for "milking" Staten Island Edison and refused to sanction the sale of $8,500,000 long-term bonds to pay off notes, he promptly offered to exchange the notes for a new 364-day issue. The Commission has jurisdiction only over borrowing of a year or more. All but $1,000.000 of the maturing issue was exchanged. Mr. Hopson...
Presumably this black fit of pessimism was induced in Italy's normally optimistic Premier by his Government's inability to balance its budget (TIME, May 23), coupled with the refusal of the U. S. Congress to sanction cancellation of German Reparations and the War Debts of Italy and her Allies...
Boiling mad at what he considered a treacherous betrayal, Mr. Shouse explained that his "commendation" as permanent chairman came only after Governor Roosevelt had dictated over the long distance telephone his sanction of the Chicago compromise to Robert H. Jackson, New Hampshire National Committeeman and Roosevelt supporter. He cited Virginia's Harry Flood Byrd as a witness to all that occurred in Chicago and exhibited the "commendation" resolution in Mr. Jackson's handwriting. Declared Mr. Shouse...
...Horror of It" is the most powerful piece of propaganda printed since the war. It is peace propaganda, and unlike the work of those whose business it was fifteen years ago to raise hatred to its worst pitch, this book has every moral sanction in its favor. Everything in it is true, everything is from the pens of those who saw war, or from the cameras which recorded the ghastliness of conflict for the official files of the belligerent powers. As a record of how revolting and how gruesome fighting can be the book has tremendous power to prevent future...