Word: consent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Members of the Upper House of Parliament are greatly disturbed over a recent British court decision that children conceived by artificial insemination are illegitimate. (In the United States, the artificially inseminated children are legitimate if both parents consent to the operation, Zimmerman stated...
...inexcusable Dutch policy in Indonesin. When some one asked why we had not cut off Marshall Plan aid to the Dutch, I did point out that this time a decision which the United States could not properly take unilaterally; that such a step could be taken only with the consent of the Marshall Plan countries, relying upon Dutch contributions to general European recovery and numbering among themselves several colonial powers, would favor this action. The question of Indonesia providing commodities vital to European recovery was never mentioned; obviously Indonesia could provide such commodities whether or not it was under Dutch...
Professor Francis M. Rogers, Chairman of the Department of Romance Languages, who is backing the foreign-study movement before the faculty, explained it to the Council, emphasizing that the plan would not involve a sweeping depopulation of the House, but would be for a small group, with department consent...
After ten years of agile legal footwork, Paramount Pictures, Inc. last week tossed in the sponge in its antitrust fight with the Justice Department. It approved a consent decree agreeing to split itself into two separate companies, one to make and distribute movies, the other to operate theaters...
Paramount President Barney Balaban put on a brave front. Said he: "The consent judgment . . . opens the way to one of the most constructive moves in the history of the corporation." But the constructive move broke up one of the biggest and most profitable U.S. movie companies at a time when the outlook for all moviemakers was none too good. On the other hand, moviegoers would benefit. "Clearances," which now prevent small theaters from showing pictures too soon after their first run, are banned. In many small towns this would give a wider selection of pictures. Among the separation terms...