Word: consent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other is that a man making an agreement with the government can be ordered under threat of punishment to agree in advance that he will give his consent to any rule, regulation or decree which may in the wisdom of the government be decided is good for him or for business in general or society as a whole...
...more than last year. New ships: four cruisers, one aircraft carrier, nine destroyers, three submarines, many a small craft. France- The Doumergue Government pushed construction on a man o' war, two submarines, and a destroyer for which it had yet to obtain Parliamentary consent, then asked Parliament to authorize a three billion franc ($197,400,000) bond issue to pay for additional armaments. Navy: 595,000,000 francs ($39,151,000). Air: 980,000,000 francs ($64,484,000) which will be spent for "quality rather than quantity" in fighting planes. Explained the Foreign Office: "Germany is rearming." Germany...
...name of "One Who Believes in Honest Government," threatened to subpena Acting Editor Vance Armentrout if the name was not forthcoming. Above the Courier-Journal's letter column runs this legend : "The writer's name and address must be signed, not to be published without consent." Editor Armentrout, a seasoned newspaperman who used to manage the paper's capital bureau, instantly saw that the Legislature's demand constituted a challenge to the protection which the Courier-Journal, like most papers, gives its letter-writing readers. When he refused its request, the committee promptly summoned Editor Armentrout...
...loved Buster McClish, 18, a Choctaw farmer boy from southern Oklahoma. With a baby on the way they decided they had better get married. Mother Woosey, who was a grandmother at 29, was sympathetic. Choctaw Indians are not oil-rich and Buster's parents readily gave consent. There was only one obstacle. Even in the ten States* which permit girls of 12 to marry. Juanita would have been too young. Oklahoma, however, forbids marriage of girls under 15. But when the urgency of the case was explained to a district judge at Sapulpa he granted a special dispensation. Last...
...unless they are financially reorganized. Anybody who knows what that means in legal terms and in point of time knows what that means in legal terms and in point of time knows that a year or more is required for such steps, since stock-holders or security owners' consent must be obtained...