Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...step, they reported the President was picking a commission to study British labor practice, bring back suggestions for watering down the Wagner Act. As a result of the report, C. I. O.'s John L. Lewis hastily informed Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins: "The C. I. 0. cannot sanction such an enterprise. ... It will oppose amendment or modification of the Wagner...
...undistributed profits tax, a balanced budget, the broadening of the income tax base, citizens should consider the conference's recommendation for a permanent organization of little business to deal with the government and should compare the desires of big and little business. Unfortunately the President refused to give official sanction to a group, representative of half the nation's business, anxious to cooperate with Washington. In addition, circumstances of the conference made it impossible to form any organization. But immediate failure should not discourage leaders of little business from trying to organize a body to discuss problems with the government...
...uniform of a field marshal. Opposite His Majesty, in the morning coat and red tarboosh of Egyptian officialdom, was the bride's father, Judge Youssef Zulficar Pasha, an old friend of Egypt's royal family and vice president of the Mixed Court of Appeals at Alexandria. Religious sanction was given by the presence of Egypt's supreme religious authority, Sheik Mustafa El Maraghi, of Ahzar University, and three other sheiks, all in purple robes and white turbans. Waiting patiently in an anteroom were all the princes of the royal family, the entire Cabinet, all surviving former Premiers...
Hirohito, myopic Emperor, last week convened with awful solemnity the first Imperial Council held in Japan since 1914. The Conference met, not for the purpose of deciding anything or advising His Imperial Majesty, merely to have the Son of Heaven give his august sanction to new policies previously agreed upon. For let the Emperor, descendant of the Sun Goddess and himself godly in Japanese eyes, speak in Imperial Conference, and impious is any Japanese, high or low, who dissents...
...Government had withdrawn its recognition of the Chinese Government. This meant that the Japanese Ambassador would quit China, and since the severance of diplomatic connections is often (although not invariably) the prelude to a declaration of war, it suggested that the purpose of the Imperial Council meeting was to sanction a War, open and declared...