Word: consent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quite all right but wish to avoid the battle royal which would ensue if the U. S. Senate were asked to approve it? Would Senator Morrow, in short, tell the British to tell the French and Italians that the U. S. would like to give merely its tacit consent to the formula under which they propose to adhere to the London Naval Treaty...
...retain their sovereighty and separate political entity. However, many Germans and Austrians, remembering how the Prussian customs union helped to unite Germany politically into the German Empire, now hail this alliance as the first step toward a political union in the future; but such an "Anschluss" would need the consent of the League of Nations, which France and her satellites would almost certainly block...
...determined, Harvard College never specifically received by charter the authority to grant honorary degrees. There is a long-standing statute of the University itself which says that "honorary degrees are conferred by vote of the Corporation with the consent of the Overseers." It is true also that the so-called "Charter of 1692" contained the following provision...
...clergyman or other minister of any religion shall not, without the consent of the party making the confession, be allowed to disclose a confession made to him in his professional character, in the course of discipline enjoined by the rules or practice of the religious body to which he belongs...
...Cuba, where gambling facilities abound, divorce was last week made almost as easy as in Mexico. Almost unanimous votes in both houses of the national Congress modified the Cuban law as follows: "Divorces may be granted on the application of both parties, the decrees to be known as mutual consent decrees. They will be effective within 90 days from the filing of application. Both parties shall report before courts three times, 30 days apart." The divorce becomes automatically effective if, 30 days after the decree is issued, the parties do not ask to have it set aside. The bill makes...