Word: sealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against "outright and immediate payment." In short, they are opposed to yielding to the Legion's full demand. In most Congressmen's minds the issue had last week boiled down to a question of how much cash to give. Messrs. Taylor & Belgrano have not yet set their seal to any definite bill. To compromise before it is necessary would only weaken their bargaining position. But the fiction of bonus bookkeeping will come in very handy. By tinkering with it Congressmen will be able to justify almost any figure they want to set for a cash payment...
...gets an additional ?4,000) or over the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Also, in the words of the late, great Jeremy Bentham, the Lord High Chancellor is "the chief and most constant legal adviser of the King in all matters of law . . . keeper of the great seal, a various, multifarious and indefinable office . . . the possessor of a multitude of heterogeneous scraps of power too various to be enumerated." The Lord Chief Justice of England actually presides in King's Bench division over the great majority of important cases of appeal...
Last week Editor Blossom pronounced the experiment a success. In the first month the black seal of an accepted story was broken to admit Borden Chase, a hydraulic engineer. Soon others were unmasked: a Chicago newshawk using the name Kimball Herrick; a Montana professor named Brassil Fitzgerald; Allen Vaughan Elston, previously unknown outside of the pulp magazines. And more than one professional with a front cover name received a rejection slip, unaware that his story had been judged and discarded solely on merit...
Having seen all these arrangements the President rolled into his own new office?oval like the old one but, by his order, two feet wider, two feet longer. Handsomest room in the building, it is decorated with the great Presidential Seal set in the ceiling, has indirect lighting simulating daylight. All the furniture is old except a new duralumin lamp upon the desk. The President found it all just as he had planned it. Waiting in an adjoining office ?the only one in the building that is pink instead of green?to take his dictation was Private Secretary Marguerite...
...Baldwin's speech last spring stating that the frontier of the Empire is now on the Rhine was the first unmistakable sign of the changed atmosphere. More recently the provision of British troops for service in the Saar and the vigorous policy pursued at Geneva by the Lord Privy Seal, Captain Anthony Eden, have merely emphasized the new policy. England has definitely re-entered European politics...