Word: consent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quit the Air Corps (officially he was retired for deafness), and became a consultant to the fledgling Chinese Air Force in 1937. Sergeants McDonald and Williamson served with him there, were with him in A.V.G. last week. Last year Claire Chennault came home and with President Roosevelt's consent began to organize A.V.G. Air Corps and Navy pilots and flying students were allowed to resign to go to the defense of the vital Burma Road. Their promised pay: in action, $600 per month and a $500 bonus for every plane shot down (which with last week's total...
...bagged for his March of Dimes program (TIME, Jan. 26), turned out to be uninformed of the fact, and failed to make her advertised radio debut. Garbo partisans and Oboler resenters-two large classes-waxed bitter about "high-pressuring" and "committing big names in advance of their consent." Others merely observed that Mr. Oboler had been a little too busy for his own good...
...their clean Sunday overalls and cotton dresses looked grimly at the new sights to be seen in Albany. They watched the young girls flitting in & out of the Club Room. In cars along the dark roads they heard high-school girls giggling unchildlike giggles. (Georgia's age of consent is 14.) Said a tight-lipped farmer: "If I had a daughter that age in Albany, I'd sit up every night with a shotgun...
...State Department issued an acid statement, calling the seizure of St. Pierre & Miquelon by "three so-called Free French ships ... an arbitrary action . . . without the prior knowledge or consent ... of the United States Government...
...branches of the service require that men be physically and morally fit. They must have records (birth certificates, doctors' affidavits, etc.) to prove that they are (or intend to be) U.S. citizens and are within the age limits. Minors may enlist only with the consent of their parents or guardians...