Word: consent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suddenly he remembered that he had other flies to catch. He would have liked to stay and defeat the British loan, but-"Four peckerwoods down in Mississippi [are] trying to take my job away from me." Would the Senate give its unanimous consent to his absenting himself until after the July 2 primaries? The Senate gave its unanimous consent...
...committee is inquiring into reports that certain American firms, with State Department consent, are negotiating with an unnamed foreign power, believed to be Russia, to provide them with the know-how on radar and other materials used...
...only a trading-place for international deals. . . . That is all we deserve to have in the way of international agreement; it is all we really wish. If U.N. tried to become a true world government it would not last a week; it would be a government without the consent of the governed and as such would immediately be repudiated, by Americans as quickly as by any other group...
...meals question, Campbell revealed that the University, through vice-President Edward Reynolds '15, had given the council a clear list of items that, with the consent of the Hygiene Department, may be eliminated from the dining hall meals...
Ivar Kreuger, ill-famed Swedish match king, shot himself in a Paris apartment 14 years ago, but the evil that he did lived after him.* Not until this week were the effects of his slick cartel-making wiped out in the U.S. The end came in a consent decree in the Government antitrust suit against Kreuger's old Swedish Match Co. and six companies dominated by secretive U.S. Match King William Armstrong Fairburn. A Federal court in Manhattan ordered a stop to such cartel practices as: ¶ Dividing the world into noncompetitive markets. ¶ Restricting production. ¶ Fixing prices...