Word: consent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Surrogate's Court, meanwhile, the Brothers Pulitzer, a morose trio, sat across the room from dapper, ebullient little Publisher Roy Wilson Howard who clearly manifested his desire to have at the business and be done with it. The Pulitzers had made a contract with Publisher Howard, contingent upon consent of the court, to sell him the papers for $3,000.000 plus another $2,000,000 to be paid out of profits, if sufficient, by 1942. Obviously Publisher Howard would scrap the morning and Sunday Worlds, merge the Evening World with his thumping Evening Telegram and gain the Worlds...
...Blue defensive squadron under Vice Admiral Arthur Lee Willard aboard the Arkansas, only battleship in the line. To him had been assigned seven light cruisers, 22 destroyers, the giant aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga, a flock of submarines, the dirigible Los Angeles (used for the first time by international consent in war games). To drive the Black fleet back from a 1,000-mile jungle-fringed coast line Admiral Willard relied chiefly on a force of 225 battle planes...
...Cuba cannot, under the Platt Amendment, regulating Cuban-U. S. relations, set up a bank of issue without U. S. consent...
...province of the Student Council must be that of an organized body. The plans announced today affirming the intention of the Student Council to appoint nominating committees to work in conjunction with the present class officers are needless. To say that they are a departure from tradition without the consent of the classes is to say almost nothing, in view of the general disinterest in the matter. Nevertheless, here again it would be better to do things with some measure of regularity...
...everybody watched Mr. [Charles Evans] Hughes to see what he would do with his glass. He didn't keep us waiting long? just parted his whiskers, said 'Let her go!' and drained it to the bottom. Now there's a man after my own heart! ... If he would only consent to run [again] for President, come down here and travel with me from town to town and let me shave him, so the people could see what he looks like, I could elect...