Word: consent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cycle of his family has swung low, then started up again. Last month his widow realized handsomely on one of his characteristic plunges, an investment in the oil-cracking process of Inventor Carbon Petroleum Dubbs (TIME, Jan. 21). And last month the Supreme Court released Chicago packers from the consent decree of 1920 by which they were obliged to restrict themselves to the meat business despite competition in meats from the grocery chains. Swift & Co. last week availed itself of this release and announced a forthcoming line of canned fruits & vegetables. When the stockholders and potent directors of Armour...
President Hoover, however, did consent to encourage Norman Baker, a cancer doctor of Muscatine, Iowa, who has been branded a quack by the American Medical Association. Recently Dr. Baker started a newspaper to air his opinions. Science's anonymous contributor quoted an editorial printed this month in the A. M. A. Journal: "By some of the strange influences known only to politicians, President Hoover was induced to apply to a pushbutton in Washington the presidential digit, thereby giving to the presses in Muscatine the electrical juice necessary to induce motion, whereby inked rollers applied to paper aided still further...
...purposes of the Senate fight on the President were perfectly obvious. The Senate was reaching for the recall. The Supreme Court had ruled that a President might remove an appointee without the "advice and consent" of the Senate. The Senate wanted a similar power of removal over appointees. Politically the fight was designed to put President Hoover in a hole. If he returned the Power Commissioners nominations, he would be bowing to the Senate's dictation. If he did not, it was argued by his enemies, he would be bowing to the dictation of the "power trust...
Modified last week by the District of Columbia Supreme Court was the 1920 consent decree which ordered Armour and Swift to pack & sell meats only (TIME, Oct. 20). After a three months' trial Justice Jennings Bailey decided that they could handle groceries, fruits, vegetables and dairy products wholesale, but could not become retail food merchants...
...spoke Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, famed "Iron Man," still by common consent a spokesman for German finance, although resigned as Governor of the Reichsbank...