Word: assents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charles below the Weld Boat House. The Athletic Association and the Planning Board have needed only official sanction to begin work immediately. The one remaining silent voice is that of the Corporation. With student opinion so clearly apparent, there seems no longer to be an adequate reason for refusing assent...
...railroad domain, the Van Sweringens advanced nearer the reali- zation of the Greater Nickel Plate System (TIME, July 7, Aug. 11, 18. Apr. 6) by securing assent to their leasing terms for the Chesapeake & Ohio by a majority of the latter's stockholders. Wilson & Co. (TIME, Sept. 8) and the St. Paul Railroad (TIME, Mar. 23, 30) are being cut down and revamped, preparatory to setting them up in business again on their own feet...
...Universal Manhood Suffrage Bill was passed by huge majorities in both Houses of the Imperial Japanese Diet. The Bill will be sent to the Prince Regent for the Royal Assent and promulgated by Imperial rescript which makes it the law of the land. Plans were being laid to declare Apr. 28 a national holiday in commemoration of the passage of the measure...
Wrote Mr. Roosevelt to Mr. Lodge (Apr. 6, 1910) : "At Rome I had an elegant row. The Pope imposed conditions upon my reception, requiring a pledge-secret or open-that I would not visit and speak to the Methodist Mission. Of course I declined absolutely to assent to any conditions whatever, and the reception did not take place...
...then opened the doors, had the motion to confirm put and answered in unison with a rumbling "Aye." There is reason to believe that the Senate did not know much about Mr. Sargent when, glad to have beaten the President and eager to go home, it gave its perfunctory assent to the choice of Mr. Sargent...