Word: consent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clarance Brettun Blethen's Times not only printed Mr. Hearst's pronouncements, but independently condemned the strikers and their tactics. These, it seemed to rich, reactionary Mr. Blethen, were outrageously irregular. The Hearst pressmen were remaining away from work in violation of their "contractual obligations" and without consent of their international officers. The picketing was being largely conducted by unions, which had no legitimate interest in the dispute. Moreover, Seattle's Mayor sent no police to escort the News's 650 technically nonstriking employes to their work...
...Hours to Kill (Twentieth Century-Fox) is not nine times as good as Four Hours to Kill, released last year, the title of which has been borrowed and expanded to its present proportions with due consent of Paramount...
...been disturbed by the Circus itself, either in its present corporate form or in the Ringling partnership which preceded it. Nor was the integrity of its principal owner, John Ringling, at stake. So far as the Government could see, the alleged frauds had been perpetrated without the knowledge or consent of robustious old "Mr. John," the last of the seven Rungeling Brothers from Baraboo, Wis. whose name was changed by a typesetter and allowed to stand uncorrected. All six men indicted in Manhattan last week were agents-"Mr. John's" secretary and his lawyer, John M. Kelley, and four...
...such New Deal innovations as NRA, such New Deal largess as AAA and the $4,800,000,000 Relief bill of 1935. To his constituents' demand that he vote for the Relief bill, he replied: "Much as I value votes, I am not in the market. I cannot consent to buy votes with the people's money...
...anyone could imagine was Communist Party control. In a speech which the Socialist Premier himself might have made, apple-cheeked Maurice Thorez, head man of French Communism, sought to stem the spontaneous, nationwide strikes, declared: "Strikers must know how to end their strike. They must even know how to consent to a compromise so as not to lose any of their force and especially so as not to facilitate any campaign of reaction...