Word: consent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...representatives of jealous sovereign States just 150 years before. The waste and confusion of 48 State governments were wiped out. The nation had been carved into a few great regional Commonwealths along economic lines. Freed from the tyranny of a Senate minority (treaties now required only the joint consent of a majority of both Houses), successive Presidents had concluded sound trade and security pacts with the nations of the world. Vast stock purchases, pioneered by the oldtime RFC, had made the Government a giant holding company with agents sitting as partners on the boards of every major corporation, guiding...
...pretense of Anglo-Franco-Italian solidarity was made, but as one of the Latin statesmen said: "We have decided to let Sir John pull chestnuts out of Herr Hitler's fire, if he can. Later we will see whether or not we like the chestnuts. We will never consent to a German Army of the size that has been proposed by Hitler...
...Moscow the Chinese Embassy blandly pointed out that Soviet Russia, by her agreement of 1924 with China, specifically engaged not to sell or surrender Russia's rights in the C. E. R. to any third power without China's consent. Nettled, the Soviet Embassy spokesman in Nanking snapped: "China has for years been unable to exercise her rights or duties regarding the C. E. R. She cannot properly reproach us. We consider this Chinese protest a mere formality...
...general consent, Oliver Wendell Holmes will be ranked high among the ten greatest judges in American judicial history. Indeed, he is recognized throughout the English-speaking world as one of a handful of leaders in Angio-American law. We commonly hear of him as a great dissenter. But in his career of half a century on the bench, he left his mark on every part of the law. Moreover, his dissenting opinions on questions of the reasonableness of legislation are proving starting points for constructive reasoning, and he is likely to be counted a maker of the bill of rights...
Author Vanderbilt (now 36) bade a tentative farewell to Fifth Avenue some years ago, when, against the advice and consent of his family, he first tried to become a newshawk and turned out to be a decoy. Like an ocean traveler on a slowly departing liner, he continues to wave good-by long after the shore crowd's handkerchiefs are dry. Farewell to Fifth Avemie rehashes, in pseudo-Northcliffe journalese, the high spots of Author Vanderbilt's career as poor little rich boy. Vanderbilt readers may find it annoying; to non-Vanderbilts it will seem either shocking...