Word: consented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Passed many a small bill on the Unanimous Consent Calendar...
Heflin: "Well, you have my consent to do that...
...thousands of far-flung security holders to consent to another new plan would have taken the I. C. C. another two or three years, perhaps. Meantime, the St. Paul's service would have continued to be an uncertainty instead of an enterprise. But if the I. C. C. could have assembled the St. Paul security-holders at once for an executive session, it would have pressed its objections to the plan engineered by suave Jerome J. Hanauer of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and associates of the National City Co., and Robert T. Swaine of the potent Manhattan law-firm of Cravath...
...conversion of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway into the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad became a fact last week upon the grudging consent of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Eleven thousand miles of track between Lake Michigan and the Pacific Coast, rolling stock, terminals and other property representing total investments of three quarters of a billion dollars changed hands...
Justinian Szeredy, to be archbishop of Gran and Cardinal; and again asked: "Has anyone anything to say?" Again the cardinals severally raised their red caps in silent & formal consent...