Word: consenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purpose of this personal attack by a relative is quite unknown to me. In 40 years the companies under my chairmanship have passed through difficult periods, but I never had to ask the stockholders to consent to the writing down of the capital of any shipping company. Statements have been circulated about a possible reconstruction of the Royal Mail Company which are absolutely without foundation. For the first six months of this year the results obtained are better than...
...replied that Cabinet ministers (and Charles Spencer Chaplin) had been shown in the same series and had not sued. Golfer Tolley retorted: "Cabinet ministers are professionals." The Court agreed, awarded him $5,000 damages. This verdict encouraged attorneys for Helen Wills, who protested the use of her picture, without consent, in some British patent medicine advertisements...
Followed, shortly, to Nanking a Russian ultimatum demanding within three days release of all Soviet prisoners in Harbin, consent to an immediate conference to discuss the C. E. R. question...
...disgustingly realistic presentation of debased womanhood. To come into contact with moral pitch visually or orally is defiling, and to sit through one suggestive play, except for the purpose of protesting to newspaper, police department, priest or minister in an effort to stir up indignation against it, is to consent to defilement. This is a matter in which whoever does not condemn, condones, and to condone immorality is a ghastly business for the citizens of any Christian country to be engaged...
...Chinese leader. On his travels Marshal Feng will soothe his wounded dignity with the comforting title of "Special Investigation Commissioner of Foreign Economic Affairs for the Nanking Government." Lastly President Chiang was forced publicly to cancel the order for the capture and punishment of Marshal Feng, before he would consent to leave the country...