Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Delaware, little mother of big corporations, a prime property right received new sanction last week-but not precisely to the liking of the corporation involved-which was Wilson & Co. Last year this big Chicago packing house put through a recapitalization plan providing, among other things, for the payment of $12,600,000 in dividend arrears, not in cash but in stock. The payment was accepted as a satisfactory settlement by the owners of 99% of the shares affected. Among the holdouts was a Wall Streeter named Joseph Keller, who figured that if back dividends were to be paid...
...Show Is On" is glorified vaudeville: glorified to such an extent that at the very beginning it receives the verbal sanction of one William Shakespeare who assures us that the entire production is under his personal supervision. Before very long Shylock, bursting in upon Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, is required to account for his presence in "Hamlet". Later there is depicted a feud in the best Montague-Capulet fashion, between John Gielgud and Leslie Howard, each of whom gives Beatrile Lillie a front seat ticket for the other's performance, each knowing that the performance will prove only a minor side...
...churchly laudamus style : "We reaffirm our faith in American institutions, particularly our faith in the Constitution. . . . We praise that document. . . . We praise. . . . We further praise. . . Lastly we praise the Constitution in its entirety and inclusive of its amendments. . . . Finally, lest specification detract from the fullness of our sanction, we publish our unreserved and unqualified endorsements of all public acts, radio addresses and statements of our leader, pledging our resources and our activities in his support and in support of our 16 principles even as he has thrown into the battle every ounce of his endurance...
...assurances that the Prime Minister will not leave England. Young Anthony Eden, the luckless Foreign Secretary, had to announce last week that Britain has further capitulated to Italy by abrogating upon specific demand by Benito Mussolini, the Mediterranean naval pacts she made with Greece, Turkey and Yugoslavia as a "Sanction." German Questions as they emerged from the House of Commons' final debate : Is Adolf Hitler ever going to answer the diplomatic questionnaire sent him by Anthony Eden over three months ago? What chance is there that Germany may be appeased by being given some British mandated territory? Is anything...
Specifically Major Attlee took the Prime Minister to task for having blamed the failure of Sanctions on the U. S. when Mr. Baldwin fortnight ago said: "Now there has been a great deal said about oil. The plain reason why an oil sanction was not put in force was that enormous quantities of oil came from a country that isn't a member of the League of Nations and which we had no reason to believe would prohibit the exportation of oil. This country is the United States...