Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years Alberta has been the only one of Canada's nine provinces to sanction sterilization of mental defectives. Last week neighboring Saskatchewan was debating whether it should follow suit. The controversy was touched off by a report on mental ills by Dr. C. M. Hincks, general director of the Canadian National Committee for Mental Hygiene...
...innocent party" may remarry, but only with the approval of his bishop. Elliott's second and third marriages (to Ruth Googins in 1933 and Actress Faye Emerson in 1944) were performed without episcopal sanction, the first by a retired Congregational minister, the second by a Methodist pastor in a glassed-in observation station at Grand Canyon, Ariz...
...nostrils. . . . But the eyes were the dark, mocking eyes of [an emperor's] slave-the slave who ironically obeyed, watched, humored and judged the master who could never understand him; the slave upon whom the master depended utterly, for his amusement, for his instruction, for the sanction of his power; the slave who wrote the fables of beasts and men." Muses young Isherwood: "I knew that face. It was the face of a political situation, an epoch. The face of Central Europe...
...measured complaints of Democrat Powell and his 25-year-old wife were prompt-and promptly relayed to the press. In Minneapolis for a concert, Miss Scott told newsmen she thought the First Lady's action "looks as if she gives sanction" to the D.A.R. action...
...Janeiro next October. In Washington, it was rumored that Secretary of State James Francis Byrnes would withdraw Ambassador Braden from Buenos Aires as a slap at the Argentine militarists, make him Undersecretary of State. From Washington, too, came a report that the U.S. has already ordered its first economic sanction against Argentina: in the future, Argentine ships may not use the Panama Canal. Reason: their two vessels a month overtax the Canal...