Word: consent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ideology had little to do with the battle. As is their custom, big Japanese business firms, hoping for future friendly treatment in such matters as import licenses, taxes and government contracts, backed one or another of the eight party factions to the tune of $4,000,000. By common consent, it was the most corrupt convention in the party's short history. One happy delegate from southern Kyushu explained how the money went...
FICTION 1. Hawaii, Michener (3)*(2) The Leopard, Di Lampedusa (2) 3. Advise and Consent, Drury (1) 4. The Chapman Report, Wallace (4) 5. The Affair, Snow (6) 6. The Lincoln Lords, Hawley 7. Water of Life, Robinson 8. The Constant Image, Davenport (7) 9. The View from the Fortieth Floor, White (5) 10. Set This House on Fire, Styron NONFICTION 1. Born Free, Adamson (1) 2. May This House Be Safe from Tigers, King (2) 3. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (3) 4. I Kid You Not, Parr (4) 5. Mr. Citizen, Truman (9) 6. Felix Frankfurter Reminisces, Frankfurter with Phillips...
...Advise and Consent, Drury...
Impediments & Insufficiencies. The grounds for nullification fall into three categories: 1) impediment, 2) insufficiency of consent, 3) faulty canonical form. Impediments include underage (brides must be 14, grooms 16), impotence (but not sterility), disparity of worship (a Catholic cannot, without dispensation, validly marry a person who has not been baptized), abduction (a valid ground only for brides), crime (such as murdering one's mate to marry another), consanguinity, though in certain cases dispensation can be granted, "public honesty" (a man living with a concubine cannot marry into her family, and vice versa...
...Advise and Consent, Drury...