Word: consenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week requested the Federal courts to permit its purchase of the Ellis Adding Typewriter Co. of Newark, N. J. In 1916, the National Cash Register Co., prosecuted in an anti-trust action, was enjoined from acquiring control of any other company manufacturing cash registers, unless the government's consent to such acquisition was obtained...
...small group of insiders who constitute "the works" of the House. Some are prominent, some merely proficient. All are influential, in that they control important blocs of votes on the House floor. This inner group is an indefinite organization, based largely on personal relationships. It operates more by common consent than by formal sanction. It frames the House's policies, decides which measures it wants to pass-and can pass-and in what order they will be taken...
...duty to hail Archduke Otto as the Apostolic King of Hungary. But last week the Count-Dictator merely said: "For the thirty-sixth time I answer this question by declaring that when a King again sits upon the Throne of Hungary it will be solely by the action and consent of Parliament...
...Hearst Press, sternly denounced by President Calvin Coolidge and Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, and is now entirely defunct. (TIME, Oct. 29). But the military purpose of the notes remains. Upon it last week interest focused. Revealed was the price exacted by French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand before he would consent to support against U. S. opposition the naval projects of British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain. The French price, high, was that the British Empire should abandon its traditional policy of opposing the creation of huge conscript reservist armies in peace time by France and her allies: Poland, Czechoslovakia, Rumania...
...Lead forth our politicians in squads of a dozen and shoot them by all means. . . . But where will you put your hand on better politicians? Assuredly not in any foreign country, for ours are by general consent the best. . . . Indeed, they bear a wonderful resemblance...