Word: consenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Justice Wasservogel pondered: She is past the age of consent. If she wants to marry this man, she has a right to do so. "Of course," he said to glowering Mr. Herrick, "she ought to listen to your advice. You may have very good reasons for opposing your daughter's marriage...
Significance. When prosecution loomed, Ford and Chrysler accepted consent decrees, agreeing not to compel dealers to use their finance companies, provided that General Motors stood trial and lost. General Motors, carrying the ball for the big three, expects to appeal the case all the way to the Supreme Court. The final decision in G. M.'s case will determine whether the 370-odd independent U. S. finance companies can cut themselves in on the profitable installment business of the motor industry...
Liberal by common consent is charitable, 80-year-old John Dewey, who reiterated that Education and the mind in the frayed but clean white collar would conquer all. Liberal too is irritable Stuart Chase, who writes hotly about the conservation of U. S. resources, seems to think everybody else wants to go out and erode a lot of soil. Liberal, as everybody knows, is William Allen White, 71, Republican, editor of the Emporia Gazette, backer of Alfred Landon, who last week published The Changing West to reaffirm his liberal views. Equally liberal is Bruce Bliven, 50, editor, who steered...
...deficient, shall not be imprisoned for a longer period than three weeks without being charged with a definite offense against the law nor for more than three months without a public trial. . . . No man shall be subjected to any sort of mutilation or sterilization except with his own deliberate consent. ... He shall not be subjected to imprisonment with such an excess of silence, noise, light or darkness ars to cause mental suffering. ... He shall not be forcibly fed nor prevented from starving himself if he so desire. . . . The extreme punishments to which he may be subjected are rigorous imprisonment...
Separated. Walter Percy Chrysler Jr., 30, arty elder son of Motorman Chrysler, and Marguerite ("Peggy") Sykes Chrysler, by mutual consent, after a marriage of 18 months; in Manhattan...