Word: consented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Debt Funding Agreements. The bitterest struggle in House and Senate was over the Italian agreement which provided for only about 25% repayment (of the present value). But the argument that Italy could pay no more carried the day. The Senate finally gave its consent (TIME, May 3) and agreements with Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Roumania, Esthonia and Latvia followed in quick succession (TIME...
...become a much sought lawyer, a self-made man of wealth, a statesman of primatical fame. He has been twice Premier (1911-13; 1922-24) and throughout the War and peace negotiations was President of France (1913-20). It was felt last week that if M. Poincaré would consent to assume the portfolio of finance, solidarity would be given at least to the fiscal policy of France. M. Poincaré (Right: ultra-anti-German) signified his willingness to serve under M. Briand (Left: conciliator of Germany...
...Passed several hundred private bills under a special "unanimous consent" agreement by which three adverse votes could defeat any measure...
...agricultural bill which the Senate had received from the House-reported with an .amendment. The amendment was the addition to it of the entire Haugen bill (defeated by the House) with very little change. If the Senate were to pass the bill as Mr. McNary wished, the House might consent to a joint conference to arrange the differences or it might, as seemed probable, reject the Haugen bill just as it was rejected before. If by any chance the House should accept the Haugen bill, it was reasonably certain that the President would veto it. The most the proponents...
This exalted spat between two once omnipotent statesmen burst forth when the Earl of Oxford and Asquith, official leader of the Liberal party, set out to give to Lloyd George, Liberal leader by popular consent, a reprimand and dressing down for his pro-Laborite attitude during the great "general strike" (TIME, May 10 to May 24). In a letter released to the press last week the Earl loftily informed Mr. George that he "regretted" the Welshman's conduct in denouncing the Baldwin Government's handling of the strike. More especially the Earl stigmatized Mr. George's refusal to attend...