Word: consent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...India a settlement, certain features of which Mahatma Gandhi successfully resisted by his hunger strike (TIME, Oct. 3). Of one thing only the British felt certain: Burma, the eastern province of India, was to receive by her people's wish and by the Round Table's consent a separate status and a separate constitution from Federal India...
...pool was in restraint of trade. Last week rather than stand a long and costly trial with the risk of losing the case and being heavily fined, the defendants agreed to mend their set-up as the Government suggested, stoutly insisting nevertheless that they had violated no law. Their consent will be a boon to the entire radio industry, hitherto befuddled by patent confusion. And Owen D. Young becomes more available for the Roosevelt Cabinet, since now he will not have to appear as a defense witness in one of the biggest anti-trust suits of all time...
Unlike our modern cigarette-smoking age, tobacco was not allowed except by permission of the President, with consent of the parent or guardian, "and then in a sober and private manner." It was also voted that every student must be in his room by nine o'clock under penalty of a fine, and no one could go to Boston except by special permission, without being subject to a five dollar penalty. In 1656, the President and Fellows were empowered "to punish all misdemeanors--either by fine, or whipping in the hall openly, as the nature of the offence shall require...
...chairman of the matter of a charity game for the unemployed, but was not, as stated in Boston and New York papers, commissioned to organize a team to oppose the Braves. Leary emphatically declared last night that the project was still in an embryonic state, that President Lowell's consent to a professional team playing in the Stadium had not been secured, that the offer of the Braves had not been accepted, that no coach had yet been found who would undertake to organize a team to oppose them...
...Financial Committee of the Cambridge Unemployment Relief Committee, for assistance from the Student Council, emphasizing the increased acuteness of the unemployment situation this winter. A vote of the Council shortly thereafter approved charity collections at the Army game, and the H.A.A., and West Point officials have now given their consent...