Word: consent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know the details of certain conferences with Assistant Attorney General Jackson which had been held off the record in Washington. H. M. Hogan, assistant general counsel for General Motors, declared that he and officials of the other indicted companies had been called to Washington to "talk over" a "consent decree" whereby the manufacturers would divorce themselves from their affiliated finance companies...
Said Mr. Hogan: "It was my understanding from what Mr. Jackson said that if all the parties concerned signed the consent decree there would be no indictments by the Milwaukee grand jury." Lawyer Hogan quoted Lawyer Jackson as saying that the jury would be told: "We have accomplished all we wanted you jurors to accomplish and we recommend that you drop your proceedings." Concluded Lawyer Hogan: "Jackson said further that there could be no decree unless all were willing to sign. I was unwilling to sign...
...authorize him to draw up annual marketing quotas in advance for wheat, corn, cotton, rice and tobacco, to obtain observance of them by means of benefit-paying voluntary contracts. Both bills agree in principle that when reserves on hand grow too large and two-thirds of the producers involved consent through a referendum, compulsory marketing control can be invoked and penalty taxes levied on further sales. Beyond that the House and Senate bills have so little in common that it was hard to find anyone in or out of Congress last week who supported both...
...Wistar Institute printed a 250-volume edition of the memoirs, which was privately circulated. Last week, the great event in the Institute's life was the publication, with the consent of living members of the family, of a 2,500-volume limited edition (518 pages, $5), of The Autobiography of Isaac Jones Wistar...
...French convent, 18-year-old Victoria arrived in England to make her own way as a governess. But Lady Derby, her aunt, had a better idea: to install her as hostess at the British Embassy at Washington, where her father was now British Ambassador. Skillful wangling won the consent of Queen Victoria, President Garfield's wife, balky U. S. Cabinet members' wives. A sensation from the start, dark, blue-eyed, naïve Victoria, with her heavy French accent and "marvellously curving mouth," did in Washington "exactly what she liked with everybody...