Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stinson monoplane would be flown by relays of relief pilots sent aboard at intervals by a rope ladder dropped from the refuelling plane. The pilot being relieved would drop to earth with a parachute. Last week Director Gilbert G. Budwig of the aeronautics branch, Department of Commerce, refused to sanction the flight, refused to waive the rule requiring aircraft to remain 300 ft. apart in the air. He said: "It is a stunt, and an extremely dangerous stunt. The plan involves too much risk of human life to make any conceivable benefits which might be derived worth while. It would...
...position which has been created by the intervention of the Vatican in the affairs of Malta" (TIME, June 2 et seq.), said Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald in the House of Commons last week, made it necessary for "His Majesty's Government, with considerable reluctance" to "sanction a temporary suspension of the [Maltese] constitution...
Senate Leader Watson hopefully predicted the bill would be through Congress in ten days. First the Senate must approve the conference changes in toto; then the House must sanction the flexibility change and the new lumber rate. That the President would sign the bill and try to flex out its imperfections was a firm congressional conviction...
...Pops, caught on. It was considered Bohemian and ever so smart to roll up to Music Hall on one's bicycle, to sit without gloves, sip a lemonade just flavored with claret and tap one's foot in time to a mazurka. Such goings-on had even the sanction of the late Mrs. Jack Gardner, Boston's leading lioness. Mrs. Gardner was for years ruler of the Pops. Even the conductor, it was said, awaited her nod before he raised his baton...
...Kellogg had been a Minneapolis cash grain dealer. His brother John had been involved in the Armour Grain Corp. fiasco which caused his suspension for two years from the Chicago Board of Trade. Early this year when wheat broke badly Grain Corp., with the Farm Board's sanction, organized Stabilization Corp. to go into the pit and trade on U. S. funds. William Kellogg was made its president. Who endorsed him the Farm Board declines to reveal but Chicagoans imagine he had political backing from Wisconsin. He conducted his trading through his brother John, now reinstated, with much swagger...