Word: consent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Doubtless many will not be satisfied with particular clauses of the document; viewing it as a whole, however, with its ratification, a long step will be made toward establishing "the reign of law, based on the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind...
...work for fifty cents a day for three years were sent home at a cost of twenty-five thousand dollars to the Japanese company that imported the Chinese, it having been discovered, after protest had been made by Japanese labor, that the company had failed to get the consent of the governor of the district to bring in the Chinese. Japan, as against China, does not hesitate to exercise the right to exclude laborers not wanted...
...game was arranged," said Mr. Moore, "at the instance of the West Point football authorities, who had the approval of the Army Athletic Council, and who felt sure of obtaining the consent of the War Department...
...play will commence at 8 o'clock. The Club has been opened through the kind consent of the Graduate Council. Not only will it be open for "The Middle Window" tomorrow, but also for reading and writing, and for a program arranged by Phillips Brooks House in the evening, on Sunday...
...yellow to sign his own name to it--on the success of his little hoax. But it might be well to remind him, at the same time, that unpleasant things have been known to happen to people that acquire the habit of using other persons' signatures without their consent...