Word: consent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...others: Vandenberg (whose name was entered without his consent), 5%; MacArthur, 4%; Warren, 1%; Martin...
...decide whether to turn her beloved over to Scotland Yard, "auntie" and the "vet" (two husky Russians who ran the London branch of the "Apparatus") tried to decide what to do about Harriet. Agent Lightfoot was an invaluable spy, but he had up & married a little moron without party consent, and (they decided) she would have to be "eliminated." Obviously, Agent Lightfoot was the man best qualified to do the eliminating. Lightfoot protested, but he took Harriet duck-hunting and tried to blow her head off. When he failed, the Apparatus decided that bungling Agent Lightfoot must be eliminated himself...
...incident was no put-up job between professor and student. To "teach Professor Prosser some law," Poindexter had brought suit in the Cambridge (Mass.) courts for the return of the pocketed $5, plus $5 damages for mental anguish. Then he reconsidered. By mutual consent, the action was transferred to a mock court in the Harvard Law School. This week, before a courtroom of Harvardmen, District Judge Frederick A. Crafts of Waltham will hear the case of Poindexter v. Prosser. Professor Prosser has retained Professor Edmund M. Morgan, Harvard's expert on evidence, to defend him. Poindexter will have...
...Manhattan offices again. Thanks to him, Perón now understood many of the engineering and economic problems facing the five-year plan, was aware that it would take far more than five years to industrialize farm-minded Argentina. Though his contract had ended on March 1 "by mutual consent," Lord had praise for Perón, and with reason. The year, said he, had been worth "much more than a million" to his Inter-American Construction Corp. And he was surer than ever that he wanted to do business in Argentina...
...action "dangerous, un-democratic, and un-American," since all three clubs recently made their lists available to the National Security Committee, an organization backing Universal Military Training. He charged that the clubs' officers were, in effect, lobbying for one side of the conscription issue, without the knowledge or consent of club members...