Word: consenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gold Reserve Act of 1934 (continuing the $2,000,000.000 Stabilization Fund and the power of the President to fix the gold content of the dollar anywhere between 50% and 60% of its old weight); sent it to the House. ¶ Suspended its rules by unanimous consent in order to confirm without referring to committee the nomination of James Aloysius Farley as Postmaster General (only member of the Cabinet whose term of office automatically ends with that of the President); confirmed the nomination of Charles Edison as Assistant Secretary of the Navy. The House: ¶ Passed the bill extending...
...this vast external realm," observed the bearded, British-born old Associate Justice, "with important, complicated, delicate and manifold problems, the President alone has the power to speak or listen as a representative of the nation. He makes treaties with the advice and consent of the Senate; but he alone negotiates...
...legal counsel were aiming at was not a new copyright law, but an amendment of the present copyright law to give artists the same protection that authors and playwrights now have. This would make it impossible for an owner to reproduce a picture without the artist's specific consent...
...historic broadcast, Prince Edward did not defend either himself or Mrs. Simpson. That would have been undignified. The skeleton must not be jangled. Unmentioned therefore by Prince Edward was the clash of wills between himself and the Church of England over whether the Archbishop of Canterbury would refuse or consent to officiate at the Coronation and consecration of a King who intended to marry a woman such as Mrs. Simpson (see p. 18). In the House of Lords, the Archbishop spoke volumes when he said in a broken voice, "Of the motive which compelled the renunciation we dare not speak...
...dissent in the Lords. Dominion Parliaments hastened to concur by rubber-stamp landslides, all excepting the Irish Free State (see p. 18). Finally Parliament so legislated that Prince Edward and his heirs shall be free to marry whom they please without having first to obtain the King's consent as ordinary members of the Royal Family must do, further that neither Prince Edward nor any heir of his shall ever occupy the British Throne...