Word: consent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Every farmer unable to pay his mortgage or other obligations could be declared bankrupt, have his farm appraised and, with the consent of creditors, buy it back over six years at the new figure, with 1% interest...
...week a rich old man died in what the Press called his "palatial home" near Los Angeles. His age was assumed to be 92 years. His importance could be gauged by the fact that before his funeral the Federal Government in Washington dispatched a telegram forbidding burial without its consent...
Germany is fighting for a system which will put her back on her feet with the consent of a majority of her people. She may be basing her struggle on wrong premises as William Jennings Bryan once did. Like his silver conceptions, Germany's military views may wreak harm on others, but ahead of her lies the one purpose of regaining her pedestal in the world. As long as she keeps her experiments within her borders, it is no concern of this or any other country. But the moment her policies endanger the life and happiness of others, it becomes...
...Dunlap, U. S. M. C., in Arlington Cemetery. His objection: it established a precedent contrary to Cemetery rules and constituted a discrimination against other holders of the decoration buried at Arlington. ¶ The President signed a municipal bankruptcy bill by which bankrupt towns and cities may, with the consent of a Federal District Court and 75% of their creditors, compromise their debts to get back on their financial feet. Good news was this for many a ruined town. Such municipalities as Atlantic City, Miami, Asbury Park, Asheville, Flint, Pontiac, Hendersonville (N. C.), Wilmington, Mobile, and Astoria (Ore.) were expected soon...
...order to guard against repetitions of the Drinker respirator controversy of last year, the Harvard Corporation yesterday announced that no patents primarily concerned with therapeutics or public health may be taken out by any member of the University, except with the consent of the President and Fellows, and that such patents would not be taken out by the University itself unless they are dedicated to the public. The University will, however, provide legal advice to anyone who desires steps to be taken to prevent the patenting by others of his discoveries or inventions...