Word: consented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate had written a letter to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat in which he said:". . . [Reed] is incapable of sustained allegiance to any person or any cause. . . has forfeited any claim to my confidence that he may ever have been supposed to have. ... [I] will never willingly consent to any further association with him. . . ." To onetime Governor of Missouri Stephens, ex- President Wilson had written in 1922, when Senator Reed became a candidate for re-election to the U. S. Senate: "I shall hope and confidently expect to see him repudiated by the Democrats at the primaries. Certainly Missouri cannot...
...roughly approximate, on an ad valorem basis, those levied by the U. S. "Cut your tariffs and we will cut ours," is virtually the French slogan. However, the U. S. tariff law was expressly designed to guard against reciprocity and its provisions are not capable of modification without the consent of Congress in the form of a new law. And this appears to be most unlikely, for Congressmen are mindful that France is the only country in Europe that has not funded her past-due and legitimate debt...
...please this or that nation we consent to take international differences away* from the League of Nations and accustom the Gov ernment to consider that they can escape its judgment, how can we appeal to the Covenant of the League [to avert war] when, between 1935 and 1940, the critical hour, forecast? and awaited by Mussolini, strikes...
...should be summoned if any important news arrived from the Geneva Arms Conference. The President appeared hopeful that Great Britain would recede from its present position (see p. 12) but felt that U. S. representatives had made all possible concessions and would permit the Conference to collapse rather than consent to the British position which would result in expansion rather than reduction of naval programs. "Big Navy" enthusiasts have never found the President receptive to their ideas...
Putting her strokes like pistol shots, Miss Wills took the eighth game, the ninth, the tenth. Then she was women's singles champion at Wimbledon-and, by popular consent, women's singles champion of the world. Not since Miss May Sutton (now Mrs. Bundy) won at Wimbledon, 20 years ago, has a U. S. woman worn this supreme tennis crown...