Word: consent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...satisfied with that, the Bucharest District Court immediately annulled the marriage, leaving the grave judges in the embarrassing legal position of having invalidated something which never occurred. For good measure the Rumanian Supreme Army Council sentenced Prince Nicholas to two months imprisonment "for marrying a commoner without the consent of his superiors." Nobody paid any attention to this...
...hopelessly involved. An acute observer has pointed out that many members lost track of world affairs between the sessions of Congress and consequently at the beginning of every new term are at sea about the issues before them. In the present case the leaders of Congress definitely gave their consent before the President declared the moratorium. Any way, the choice was simply between remitting payments willingly or having them defaulted. Instead of false regard for its own dignity, congress ought to face the living issue. At present its dilateriness and petty bickerings conceal the President's failure to prepare...
...action of all parties concerned should be exemplary to other groups of privileged workers who have managed to keep their wages high when their less fortunate brethren were seeing payrolls constantly diminishing. When labor leaders consent to a reduction in wages, they show that they do not cling blindly to every temporary advantage and that they feel strong enough to obtain higher wages, if the price level should rise in the future...
...Centre and Right vociferously cheered his words: "We will accept no new Reparations arrangement except for the period of the economic depression! We will accept no reduction in what is due us, save in proportion as a reduction is granted us on the War debts! And we will not consent to giving German private debts priority over Reparations...
...member admitted." This, and a subsequent motion by him at the time of the presentation of a new Constitution (August 11, 1831), were lost; but finally, on September first, the new Constitution was adopted, permitting election to the chapter by three-fourths vote, instead of requiring unanimous consent, and incorporating as Article 4: "No oath or form of secrecy shall be required of any member of the Society, and all injunction of secrecy heretofore imposed by this branch of the Phi Beta Kappa Society shall be removed...