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...least one of your subscribers does not sanction the militaristic forces which again look toward Europe either longingly or aghast...
Pater Noster Our pirate who art British, usurper of our blood, may the massacre of sanction-ists arrive as you have willed it, on sea as on land. End for today and for always your designs on Abyssinia, repay us our debts of 1915 to 1918, as we will repay to your credit the dumdum bullets you sold the Negus. Amen...
...summer of 1930, two Irishmen of the Old Sod-a bookmaker and a politician-put their heads together and figured out a scheme. They would run a lottery on an English horse race, ask the Irish Free State to sanction it, give a fat chunk of the proceeds to impoverished Irish hospitals. R. J. Duggan, the bookmaker, had experience: he had run sweepstakes before. Joseph McGrath, the politician, had a flock of friends: he had been Minister of Labor under President Griffith. With the Bail's consent, Duggan & McGrath formed the Irish Hospitals' Trust...
...ministers of Christ thus can sanction men in their slaying of one another in war. Yet the great lesson which Christ's way of life taught to a warlike world was the victory of love over force. We turn to the Christian religion for inspiration in this matter. How discouraging it is when its leaders pledge Christ's support for our bloody strivings for victory. George B. Mathues, Secretary, Harvard Pacifist Association...
...That anti-trust and patent laws do not sanction "regulation of prices and the suppression of competition among the purchasers of the patented article...