Word: consent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Committee last week issued a nine-point questionnaire for all Senate aspirants to answer. Sample question: ''Have any public funds or political patronage, with your knowledge and consent, been used by others in behalf of your nomination or election to the United States Senate?" Only by his answering "Yes"could investigation of a candidate be precipitated...
...noncooperation with France. Throughout much of the Arab world - from Asia Minor to Aden, from Tigris to Nile - there was dismay over this latest of a long list of betrayals by the Big Powers. For Turkey, former master of the Arabs, was clearly about to gain, with the tacit consent of the French, a valuable economic key to Arab nations...
...Tossed a crumb to the starving railroads. Turning down a petition for a 10% rise in Pullman rates as "unreasonable," the Interstate Commerce Commission did consent to a 5% rise. This gave eastern roads new hope that ICC may look favorably on their renewed petition for higher coach passenger fares. Meanwhile last week, the railroad unions agreed to discuss the proposed 15% wage cut at a meeting July 20 and Class I roads as a group reported a net loss...
...Deal: Rape with consent...
...defendant last week. Actual suit in this anti-trust case was brought by Homer Cummings more than a year ago (TIME, May 3, 1937). Alcoa fought it with an injunction by a Pittsburgh judge on the ground that the monopoly accusation had been settled by the 1912 consent decree. It took a U. S. Supreme Court decision and a set of minor court skirmishes to get Alcoa finally to court in Manhattan last week for the main show. Nonetheless, Alcoa asserts it has not delayed unnecessarily, that it is eager for the trial, all issues of which it says have...