Word: consent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gets off the public domain only by consent of private landowners. Its No. 1 private job: erosion control. The Corps shows community groups of farmers how to combat soil-wastage, has built 4,400,490 dams to check erosion. It also digs and maintains ditches for drainage districts organized by local governments and cooperatives. Today it looks to the 84,400,000 acres of U. S. farm land requiring drainage as one of its most useful future fields of operations...
WASHINGTON--Wary Senate leaders outmaneuvered the economy bloc today and obtained a unanimous consent agreement for a vote at 3 P. M. tomorrow on the McKellar proposal to restore President Roosevelt's relief bill to its original figure...
...country-wide business inspection tours she met Finley J. Shepard, who had long worked for the Gould railroads, was then assistant to the president of Missouri Pacific Railroad Co. By a provision of Jay Gould's will none of his children could marry without the consent of the trustees of his estate. She got the consent. She and her husband, who survives her, had no children, but they adopted a three-year-old waif, who was found on the steps of Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral in 1914. Later they adopted two daughters of her brother...
...Anyone who insists on working overtime without the knowledge or consent of his boss should be fired...
During seven years after the War, the Committee raised and spent $25,000,000 to care for 7,000,000 needy, regardless of race, throughout Europe and Russia. During the Socialist uprising in Austria in 1934, the Committee was designated the official relief agency by consent of both the Socialist party and the Austrian Government. In the U. S., working among West Virginia coal miners, the Committee is Mrs. Roosevelt's favorite charity, to which she gave the $100,000 she made from three years' speaking on the radio...