Word: validation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Council's case against the N.S.A. may be a valid one; to date, however, the current Council has shown no willingness to hear an adequate presentation of both sides of the issue. Until such a discussion is held and all of N.S.A.'s defenders are given a chance to speak, Harvard's status in N.S.A. should not be considered finally settled, despite the Student Council Executive Committee's statement to the contrary...
After years of stalling, Congress finally voted Alaska to statehood-but it left its job half done by refusing to recognize the equally valid credentials of Hawaii...
...installed them in key posts. "Patriotic Priest" Chang Shih-liang, for one, has run the Shanghai diocese since the jailing of Shanghai's Bishop Kung Pinmei in 1955, goes about dressed in full bishop's regalia, including mitre. Ho's most recent refinement is to force valid bishops to consecrate Communist bishops, thereby attempting to maintain Roman Catholic validity. With liturgically correct bootleg rites, he has created ten "progressive" bishops, is planning consecrations for Nanking, Suchow and Hanchow, will soon appoint new bishops for Canton and Shanghai. When Bishop Li Tao-nan of Puichi was first ordered...
Such consecrations are valid because by definition a bishop has the power to create other bishops-a power which, in Catholic doctrine, is transmitted in unbroken line from the apostles themselves. But no bishop may exert jurisdiction over a diocese without specific appointment from Rome. China's new "progressive" bishops are therefore subject to excommunication...
...tried to beat the House subcommittee to the punch by admitting to reporters that his gifts, including hotel expenses of more than $2,000, a vicuña coat and an Oriental rug to Sherman Adams, had been listed as tax deductible by Goldfine companies-i.e., legally valid if some "ordinary and necessary" benefit or advantage flowed to Goldfine businesses from the expenditure...