Word: consent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plans laid last week will shove U.S. labor deeper into politics than ever before. Sidney Hillman, making a comeback after his unhappy experience as a Government official in OPM, won the consent of all 40 C.I.O. unions to draft all the men he wants. Henceforth he can reach into any union, pick out the best administrative, research, publicity or speechmaking talent...
...refused funds. Then the Bureau of Mines, anxious to increase zinc production, took an interest. (Zinc is used in brass cartridges; every big bomber carries 500 pounds of it.) As a war measure, Congress last spring gave Ickes the $1,400,000 he needed for the tunneling. Owners gave consent for the tunnel's right-of-way. Hard-boiled Harold Ickes, once he had the money, didn't wait "for legal unravelings: he condemned a right-of-way, promised to argue about damage claims later. To avoid a speculator's field holiday, he signed an order suspending...
...refused to accept a Federal contract if the regular clause forbidding racial or religious discrimination remained. In Comptroller General Warren's ruling he wrote that Franklin Roosevelt's order against such discrimination was not an order, that all Government contracting agencies can do is get the consent of contractors to abide by it. This ruling made the simmering fair-employment problem boil over and caused widespread speculation as to whether Franklin' Roosevelt's order prohibiting racial discrimination had now been nullified...
...Moscow conferences, Molotov will make no move without Stalin's consent. But Stalin's mind, to a degree unsuspected abroad, will reflect Viacheslav Molotov's advice...
...duck decoys filled the Sousa hallways. "All the best closets were quickly filled with sleeping bags, tents, canteens, fishing rods, tackle boxes. . . ." Father had a passion for the society of policemen, for presiding on committees. "After the first couple of months [he] virtually ran Chilapa, although not necessarily by consent of the inhabitants...