Word: consent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there in joint session as the National Assembly amend the Constitution to: 1) raise the Premier who is now primus inter pares ("first among equals") to explicit leadership of his Ministers; 2) empower the President, one year or more after election of the Chamber, to dissolve it without the consent of the Senate; 3) empower the Government to punish strikes within the career ranks of French civil servants by dismissal; 4) provide that in case the Chamber fails to pass the new budget by Jan. 1, a chronic failure in France, the Government may carry on for three months under...
...citizens of Waukesha could not believe their ears. By common consent Franklin D. Roosevelt's infirmity has not been mentioned in a political speech for two years-not since his followers themselves pointed to it in the campaign of 1932 to down rumors that his health was too poor to survive the rigors of the Presidency. The Press has studiously refrained from referring to the condition of his legs. Citizens have bitterly resented even the most oblique reference to it in public. It was taboo. Were it not for occasional press photographs showing him steadying himself...
...issue at stake is complex, technical and peculiarly vital to Siamese under sentence of Death. In the opinion of His Majesty, Premier Bahol was wangling into a new law clauses under which the King is deprived of his right to pardon a condemned criminal or to consent to his execution...
...When Ferdinand Pecora got through with Wall Street there were only two secrets left-the partnership agreement of the House of Morgan and the wealth of the New York Stock Exchange. Last week, with the reluctant consent of the governors, the Securities & Exchange Commission released the Big Board's figures. A consolidated balance sheet of the Exchange and its five subsidiaries revealed total assets...
Yale has been slightly dubious over joining the issue since the episode of Handsome Dan II has not been forgotten. Assurances that their copy will be printed exactly as it is written, however, have won their consent to supply the center spread...