Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ratification in congress of the state treaties. The A. P. I., after four years' labor, had attempted to cover the U. S. oil industry with a broad agreement limiting production. Attorney General Mitchell advised Secretary Wilbur's board that it had no power to sanction such an agreement and thus immunize the industry against anti-trust prosecutions. Disgruntled, A. P. I. officers threatened to buck the anti-trust law anyway and, as President Ralph Clinton Holmes of the Texas Co. put it, "if by chance we are held to be acting in restraint of trade, leave...
...those who oppose it. He is certainly true when he says that the great majority of undergraduates know nothing about the plan. The CRIMSON referendum of two years ago, almost forgotten in the renewal of the question this year, definitely proves that even undergraduate ignorance and indifference refused to sanction the proposed plan and voted against its adoption. There is no reason to believe that there has been a volte-face. Furthermore, while it is not important to whom Mr. Williams refers as undergraduate leaders, the fact that little but opposition to the plan has been heard lately seems...
...called Mr. Britten a fool. "I refer you to the Constitution and the laws," he said. The Constitution, of course, vests the direction of U. S. foreign policy in the President. The Logan Act of 1799 makes it a criminal offense for any citizen without the Government's sanction to correspond with any foreign power with intent to influence either country's conduct "in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States." Anticipating some such move as Mr. Britten's, the State Department has lately been circulating copies of the Logan Act in quarters where...
...constitute "the works" of the House. Some are prominent, some merely proficient. All are influential, in that they control important blocs of votes on the House floor. This inner group is an indefinite organization, based largely on personal relationships. It operates more by common consent than by formal sanction. It frames the House's policies, decides which measures it wants to pass-and can pass-and in what order they will be taken...
Only at Viña del Mar, famed seaside resort, may one roulette wheel spin with Governmental & Presidential sanction...