Word: consent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indian Federation (first step toward "dominion status") in 1935 or any other definite year. He rejected even the concept of an Indian-born Minister of Defense for India. He refused to pledge that Indian troops shall never be sent beyond India's frontier except with the special consent of the Indian Legislature. He stuck firmly by all the British "safeguards" that have stranded previous round table conferences, but he did think of a more polite way of talking about them...
Rumors flew that Chancellor von Schleicher had offered to make Herr Strasser the Reich Minister of Interior if Herr Hitler would consent, that Leader Hitler had refused to let any Fascist enter a Cabinet until he, Hitler, should be Chancellor and that Herr Strasser, disgusted by this stand, had made his feelings known in the only way he could. Herr Feder and about 50 of the Party's 195 Reichstag Deputies were said to support Herr Strasser, arguing that it is madness to deny job-hungry Fascists government jobs...
Myers relied upon an Act of Congress of July 12, 1876, which provided that: "Postmasters of the first, second and third class shall be appointed and may be removed by the President, by and with advice and consent of the Senate * * * " and as the Senate had not given its advice and consent, his attempted removal by the President was void...
...Duke has his way Scotland will receive a sort of Dominion status with its own Parliament and George V may consent to the gesture of a Scottish coronation at which he would wear, for the first time, the Crown of Scotland, an ancient Stuart treasure once worn by Robert the Bruce and now preserved in Edinburgh Castle...
...letter (seven and one-half typed pages) was carried 200 yards from the Kaiserhof Hotel to the Presidential Palace. It proposed-having regard to the fact that all German Cabinets for the past two years have been based not on Reichstag support but on presidential decrees-that the President consent to formation of a Hitler Cabinet on the existing basis of "presidial" (presidential ) authority. Banker Schacht, knowing full well that Old Paul would reject this proposal (as the President proceeded to do), came out first with a fighting statement: "There is only one man who can be Chancellor at this...