Word: consent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...number of sterilizations last year was 206. These operations are done only when the doctors deem them advisable for the health of individuals or the community, require the consent of those sterilized...
...Lemaigre-Dubreuil's pre-surrender associations included an interest in a pro-Fascist Paris newspaper, connections with both French and German industrialists. With the consent of the U.S. State Department-a consent which, according to some apologists, was given reluctantly-Lemaigre-Dubreuil recently had been an inter-Allied economic adviser in Algiers...
...this month, two days before Woodrow Wilson's departure on his second trip to Paris, Massachusetts' eloquent, elegant Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Sr. rose in the Senate to offer a resolution. It began: "Whereas under the Constitution it is a function of the Senate to advise and consent to, or dissent from, the ratification of any treaty. . . ." It concluded: "Resolved . . . that the constitution of the league of nations in the form now proposed . . . should not be accepted by the United States...
...supply I.G.'s Latin American market if I.G. itself could not deliver. In the fall of 1941 it brought down a walloping attack from Thurman Arnold. With the aid of its lawyer, ex-New Deal Fixer Tommy Corcoran, Sterling cleaned up its mess by 1) signing a consent decree; 2) agreeing to abrogate its German contracts once and for all and to compete with I.G. actively in Latin America...
...American republics "to any American republic which has not severed relations with the Axis or ... taken steps to control communications." If accepted, the proposal meant that Argentina would be placed in a "communications quarantine" which would practically complete her isolation from other hemisphere nations. Without Argentina's consent, her direct communications with Axis Europe cannot be censored. But all messages to & from her sister republics would be under strict supervision...