Word: consent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weaker sovereign might have mistaken obstinacy for strength and resisted his minister's [Mr. Scullin's] advice. . . . The powers of the Crown will be all the stronger for His Majesty's consent in this case, but they must assuredly be kept in reserve...
Logically Prussian Braun thought of Herr Wilhelm Karl Severing who, recently Minister of Interior for all Germany, handled his Schupo (national police) with such hard-boiled dash that they nicknamed him "The Dragon Slayer." Asked if he would consent to become Minister of Interior of the State of Prussia, Herr Severing accepted instantly, believing that it is in Prussia, in Berlin, the Capital, that Schupo must break Fascist Adolf Hitler's "brownshirt" movement if they...
Great have been the changes in food distribution within the decade. Chain grocery stores have increased from 20,000 to 65,000, with some 3,000 systems now in the field. Small packers, not bound by the consent decree, have gone into the retail trade, done the very things the large packers were prohibited from doing. Chain store systems have invaded the meat packing industry. Armour and Swift have naturally felt handicapped. They are doing a food business on a 1920 basis while their competitors operate with 1930 methods...
Vigorously the Government in the person of Harold Benson Teagarden, special assistant to the Attorney General, opposed the packers' plea. Mr. Teagarden who has worked for five years on the case argued that the consent decree was in the public interest, that the Government could not be swayed by the ill effects of the Anti-Trust Law on individual businesses. The National and the American Wholesale Grocers Associations have joined the Government in trying to keep Armour and Swift from becoming retailers...
...Doris Podmore, model, last week sued American Tobacco Co. for $250,000 damages. Charge: her picture had been used without her consent in a "Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before" advertisement; had resulted in ridicule due to her "delicate state of health,'' had caused a nervous breakdown, further ill health, severe depression...