Word: consent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Patrol was like that of Orphan Annie : indifference from well-fixed people ; danger from villains; and a steady series of hair breadth escapes from sudden death. CAP had been born out of wedlock: argument and tears had wangled it out of the Office of Civilian Defense with grudging Army consent. CAP was a hybrid : semimilitary, semi-civil...
When the networks won, ASCAP's complexion changed. The Society was forced by the Government to accept a consent decree, calling for a more democratic form of organization; the Supreme Court upheld the power of the States to outlaw ASCAP by barring price-fixing; the networks won hands down in this fight against ASCAP's high-priced terms. No longer a monopoly, it had to scratch for its feed. Its 1,510 members needed new dignity and new leaders. Genial, dictatorial Gene Buck stood for the old regime. Last month, at the annual ASCAP members' meeting...
...nervous anti-New Deal ers like a New Deal foot in the post-war door: it provides that the President's1 patent-grabbing powers may hold not only in wartime but "during any period of national emergency declared by him to exist." But Thurman Arnold's consent decrees with German patent licensees like Standard Oil, Alcoa, Dow Chemical, et al, have already resulted in freeing many U.S. as well as German patents for the duration...
Provided. In Portland, Ore., the Navy received from a wife her written consent to her husband's enlistment. To the approved form she had added a rider: "It is further understood and agreed that he shall be well fed at all times, be well and sufficiently clothed, shall not be overworked, shall not be issued too much grog, and, finally, shall not be allowed to associate with dissolute characters...
...pressagent Philip Pearl and C.I.O.'s pressagent Len De Caux last summer turned to the radio networks, with whom it had become a point of pride to be impartial in all debate. They started separate negotiations for radio time. By early December NBC was close to consent, but the declaration of war delayed the discussions...