Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dignified in their treatment of the incident. The district attorney finally recovered from his first flights of fancy and treated the defendants with sensible geniality. The University acted properly in putting on probation men, who continued to cause disturbance after they were warned by officials. Now that legal sanction has been given the settlement of the case, the memory of the Great Harvard Riot of 1932 may fade with the memory of a beautiful Spring...
...embarrassment the argument runs, both to the Council and to the University officials concerned if some measure passed by the first group should be turned down by the second. If no notice of Student Council conclusions is ever made until the change has passed all the stages of official sanction, it makes no difference what the attitude of the group was in the first place, because no one of the general student body is acquainted with what its representatives are doing...
...surprised that Representative Crisp, of Georgia, has seen fit to introduce a bill pardoning the convicted defendants in the Massie case; but it must wonder at the state of mind which the action reflects. A pardon extended form the highest legislative body in the nation would virtually sanction the action of any person who takes the law in his own hands and commits an act of Violence. That lynching and violent personal revenge are subversive of law and order, and contrary to the spirit of modern jurisprudence has been demonstrated so irrefutably and so often as to render the proposed...
...Finish!" Obviously if the Danubian states attempt to grant each other special tariff favors they will be violating the most-favored-nation clauses in their trade treaties with the Great Powers. Such violation Britain and France were ready to sanction last week, but on this point Germany and Italy made their strongest stand, wrecked the Danube Conference then & there if they had not already wrecked...
...enigmatic smile. To him, there is nothing in his writings either "surprising or subversive, but the mere common sense of our predicament as passionate bits of earth and water." To dignify men's passions, men's predicaments, he had merely motivated his tragedies with themes al ready given classic sanction by the Greeks. A brief excursion into Christian mythology in Dear Judas, apparently taken from sense of duty, did not much advance his thought; neither did Descent to the Dead, a compilation of 16 poems written in Ireland and Great Britain on a trip with his wife and twins about...