Word: consent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that I am going to Geneva. If a collective peace system is to be effective, it must possess two characteristics, strength and elasticity-strength in order that aggression may be effectively discouraged, elasticity in order that some of the causes of war may be removed through the promotion by consent of necessary changes when the time is ripe for them to take place...
...Morgan & Co. received a cablegram from Rothschild Freres of Paris suggesting a loan of $100,000,000 to France. Morgan answered that because of exchange conditions, they could not make the loan and would not do so, in any event, without the U. S. Government's consent. In answer to an inquiry from Morgan & Co. Secretary of State Bryan then announced that loans by U. S. bankers to any belligerent nation would be inconsistent with the country's "true spirit of neutrality." Two months later Mr. Vanderlip told French Ambassador Jusserand that National City Bank would head...
Knife-tongued Mr. Eiji Amau, famed official spokesman of the Japanese Foreign Office, last week told British correspondents it would be a good thing if the U. S. should consent to reductions in the size of its battleships. "In other words," said he, "we would like to see the crabs on the American Pacific coast lose their big claws...
...erect at 12 when gaunt, bushy-browed Speaker Byrns, a pink carnation in his lapel, whammed down his gavel, brought 366 magpie Members of the House to comparatively silent order. Democratic Floor Leader William Brockman ("Tallulah's Father") Bankhead, ill throughout the last session, uprose to request unanimous consent for the House to recess subject to the call of the Speaker so that President Roosevelt might deliver his address on the State of the Union to a joint session of Congress that night. That address was also to be broadcast at the best radio hour...
When the White House had announced that Franklin Roosevelt was to duplicate the unique performance of Woodrow Wilson in addressing a night session of Congress,* Republicans had sent up a terrific squawk. Shrieked Republican Chairman Henry Prather Fletcher: "Politics!" To secure unanimous consent to reconvene, the Democratic House leadership had to pay the Republicans a small price: a GOPhilippic by tubby, pudding-jowled Minority house Leader Bertrand Hollis ("Bert") Snell, which was also broadcast. Swelling with professional resentment at the President's extraordinary program, the New Yorker, who shepherds the forlorn 104 Republicans of the House, cried: "Why this...