Word: consent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were given informal hearings. No sworn testimony was taken. Interested parties were allowed to present their views, claims and kicks off the record. Then Assistant Secretary Sumner Welles and his Cuban friends drew up a "treaty" to the ratification of which the Senate does not have to advise and consent. Only when it was signed and had become the law of the land was it made public for the first time...
...over the London papers was a beauteous Fraulein by the name of Emma Kant. Her claim upon German Ambassador Leopold von Hoesch is that she is not only "Miss Germany" but also the grandniece of that gloomy Teuton, Philosopher Immanuel Kant. Would not the German Ambassador consent to be one of the judges...
Pink-cheeked from cruising in and out of Norwegian fjords, Robert Worth Bingham, President Roosevelt's wispish Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, was able to take the gavel with the consent of his doctors when the International Wheat Conference convened last week in London...
...month ago, Franz von Papen packed up in haste for Vienna where the Austrian Government had by no means decided to accept him as persona grata. Ignorant or careless of diplomacy's rigid code, Chancellor Hitler had committed the unheard of blunder of dispatching an envoy without the prior consent of the nation to which he is accredited. This left Austria free to administer a stinging snub which would make Adolf Hitler the laughing stock of Europe. In Vienna it was said that Benito Mussolini was strongly urging Austria to snub Der Führer...
...later Communist Deputies in the Dutch Parliament demanded a debate on the Amsterdam riots and the issue that is breeding trouble: reduction by Her Majesty's Government of dole payments to an average of $6 per unemployed family per week. Boomed Premier Dr. Hendrik Colijn, "We do not consent to debate this issue." By a vote of 58 to 24 he was upheld and scowling Dutch proletarians cursed their Queen...