Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Committee for Wallace received its official sanction yesterday from the Faculty Committee on Student Activities, and opposition of military training is its first concrete move. Mentioning an opposing political organization, program committee chairman Staughton C. Lynd '50 said, "We may not grow as quickly, but we'll last longer and accomplish more. We are more for things than against them...
...Memphis, Mayor James J. Pleasants Jr. bent a dutiful ear toward Boss Crump, announced that the Negro and white races would have to see the Freedom Train separately. Freedom Train officials canceled the stop. But Atlanta's Mayor William Hartsfield refused to sanction such segregation: "I do not see how anybody can draw a color line through freedom and justice...
...student bodies of Harvard and Radcliffe have voted to affiliate with the National Student Association in the hope, rather than in the conviction, that the organization will develop into a vital and beneficial force for students. The vote was not a vote of confidence. It was a highly deserved sanction for NSA to go ahead and do something...
Members of the Communion of Navarre (an organization of crusading Catholics) had sent an open letter to all the bishops of Spain. No less than 34 new Protestant chapels, the letter claimed, had been opened in Spain with Government sanction between Nov. 26, 1945 and Dec. 2, 1946-a strange interpretation indeed of Article Six in the Spanish Bill of Rights: No one will be molested for his religious beliefs, nor in the private exercise of his cult [but) ceremonies and manifestations other than those of the Catholic religion will not be permitted...
...Official Sanction Pending...