Word: consent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...officially stated last night that no room will be painted unless the occupant give his consent for such painting, and that this has always been the policy of the Maintenance Department Editor...
...order to do this it is necessary to execute work in dormitories, class rooms and elsewhere during term time. To date, I am happy to say that we have obtained the consent of sufficient men in Winthrop House and elsewhere to redecorate while they are in residence, to keep some eighteen men busy during the winter and spring who would probably otherwise have been unemployed. Next year we expect to considerably better this record...
...fabricating competitor. Later that year the Trade Commission started an investigation of the cooking utensil industry, which turned into a seven-year Alcoa probe. At the request of the Senate in 1926 the Department of Justice investigated to see if the company was living up to the 1912 consent decree. Alcoa affairs have also been thoroughly aired in private suits such as that of Baush Machine Tool. Yet Alcoa has always received a clean bill of health...
Investigation in Washington found much truth in the story. Russian agents have talked with Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. Ltd., Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. and New York Shipbuilding Corp. The State and Navy Departments have been approached for consent to the plan. Because Russia is not a belligerent in any war, the State Department would be forced to grant licenses, the Navy Department's only objections being that they would not allow the shipping abroad of 16-in. guns, a U. S. specialty, nor may Navy proving grounds be used to test the quality of guns or armor plate...
...concerns a domestic crisis in the up-to-date Yamamoto family. Thinking to arrange a reconciliation between her mother, Etsuko Yamamoto, with whom she lives, and her father, Shunsaku Yamamoto, who long ago ran off with a geisha girl, pert Daughter Kimiko Yamamoto goes to visit Shunsaku, get his consent to her marriage. Up to this point, the plot of Kimiko somewhat resembles that of Universal's Three Smart Girls (TIME, Dec. 21). The end of the picture not only differs from its U. S. counterpart but offers a moral which in a U. S. script would strike...