Word: consent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week after ASCAP refused to sign a consent decree calling for the elimination of the self-perpetuating power of its board of directors, its blanket agreement by which it sells all its properties in block, its practice of pooling and dividing its income, the Department of Justice suddenly cut loose, decided to start criminal anti-trust proceedings not only against ASCAP, but against B. M. I., NBC, and CBS as well. Said Trust-Buster Thurman Arnold: "The Department is interested in seeing that neither ASCAP nor B. M. I. can get into a position that puts the public...
This does not seem to bother individual ASCAP members, but last week, in the midst of ASCAP's squabble to get more money out of the radio chains, the Department of Justice began to close in on the society. Under way in Washington were negotiations for a consent decree by which ASCAP would forsake its blanket agreements. Since these blanket agreements have been a major factor in the networks' difficulties with ASCAP, it looked at week's end as if the Department of Justice might spike a major ASCAP gun. Meanwhile the society and the networks continued...
...this potential line-up was too much for the other club owners to bear. Before adjourning, they voted to plug the loophole in their draft rule: next year no club can sell or trade its first-or second-choice draftees until one playing year has elapsed, except by consent of the other nine league members...
...recognize that there must be a new order of some kind after this war," they stated. "But the kind of new order for which Americans may be expected to fight is one which can rest on the consent of the peoples who may be concerned...
...necessary that the justification be clear and cogent and consistent with American interests. We recognize that there must be a new order of some kind after this war. But the kind of new order for which Americans may be expected to fight is one which can rest on the consent of the peoples who may be concerned. A new balance of power, which can be maintained only by a constant threat of forcible intervention in Europe, is not an international order for which Americans should be asked to lay down their lives in foreign wars. There are better ways...