Word: consent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before he can officially take his seat on the council, Eckstein must testify before the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency, and then win "consent" from the full Senate. These steps are considered mere formalities, however...
...bill was automatically referred last month to the legislature's next annual session. Yesterday, however the House gave unanimous consent to a motion to send it back to committee...
...debatable and therefore not subject to filibuster during the "morning hour"-which actually begins at noon and lasts for two hours. Mans field wanted to call up the civil rights bill during the morning hour and plunge right into the debate. But when he asked for unanimous consent to dispense with the reading of the previous day's Journal, Russell objected...
...trial had not testified on his own behalf dur ing the five-day presentation of his defense case. "We don't think he's mental ly capable of going on the stand," explained Attorney Belli. Had Ruby agreed with that? "Jack just sort of mumbled his consent," said Co-Counsel Joe Tonahill. Instead of the defendant...
...every four applicants for a posthumous marriage is turned down, for the law requires that the man must have proved his consent "unequivocally," by posting of the banns at the local town hall, say, or written permission from a soldier's commanding officer. Simple pregnancy is not enough. "Trouble is," says one high Justice Ministry official, "many a woman comes to us brandishing just a letter from her dead fiancé, promising to marry her. That won't do it, legally. Think of all the Frenchmen who write such promises to three or four mistresses...