Word: consent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chancellor Ender, although he had resigned, felt chesty. To President Wilhelm Miklas he said with a certain arrogance that he, having saved the Kreditanstalt and averted panic, would "consent" to form another Cabinet with the under-standing that he would ask Parliament to grant him "extraordinary powers...
...full details of how the girl had been induced to unnatural sexual antics at the age of eleven by the elderly man, a trusted friend of the fam ily; how he had repeatedly over a period of years taken her on automobile trips, stopping at hotels, with knowledge and consent of the parents who never dreamed that his interest was other than fatherly: how Starr, who was emotionally unbalanced as a result, finally made known the facts to her parents; how they obtained a $20,000 settlement from the despoiler to pay for treatment of Starr by psychiatrists and neurologists...
...directors: "This will be our metropolis. We'll build near the railroad junction of Chicago where acres of land can be had for almost the asking, midway between the ore regions of the North and the coal lands of the South and East." The Steel directors nodded consent...
...Britain were a monstrous swindler and a mean cheat, what Court, what Law would be so mighty as to overawe or punish him? Last week in the ancient, musty Guildhall of London, Lord Kylsant was brought to trial before a man even more impressive than himself. Without the consent of this awful man (always readily granted) the King of England himself cannot enter his own City of London. The Awful Man is Sir William Phené Neal, Lord Mayor of London. Sir Phené Neal is also Chief Magistrate of the City of London. In his great stiff robes...
...Infirmary, Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital. For chief of Mr. Harkness' Medical Center Eye Institute there now was, since Dr. Edgar Steiner Thomson's death last January, one Manhattan certainty. It is always a difficult thing to rate that intangible which is medical standing. Yet by general consent Dr. Thomson, surgeon and director of Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital was Manhattan's No. 1 eye man. No. 2, according to the viewpoint and certainly among the first half dozen, was Dr. John Martin Wheeler, 52, Columbia professor of ophthalmology, chief of Medical Center's eye department...