Word: consenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promised to keep it in strict confidence; not even his superior officer should have known what his opinion was. His superior officer had instructed him to testify ''freely and frankly," then disciplined him for doing so. Now, should an officer of our military establishment need the consent of his superior officer to permit him to tell the truth as he sees it or express an opinion at the invitation of a House military subcommittee, which committee's conclusion is of first importance in our national defense...
...interview Stalin?" the rich and dapper little son of an Ohio railway conductor asked himself recently in Paris. Stalin is the son of a blacksmith. In Paris the conductor's son grabbed a telephone, called Moscow, asked the U. S. Embassy if the blacksmith's son would consent to see him, took a train for Moscow...
...Island War veterans who failed to apply for them within the period originally set by law, ending in 1923. Last week a straight-faced Republican State Senator introduced a bill to pay a $100 bonus to Sergeant Evael O. W. Tnesba of the Twelfth Machine Gun Battalion, asked unanimous consent for its immediate consideration. No objection was made and a Democrat Senator generously seconded the measure. It was passed instantly. When Republicans began to guffaw at the blind liberality of the majority, a shrewd Democratic Senator moved to reconsider the bill, had it referred to a committee for study. Only...
...asked to be chosen Prime Minister of Prussia while I was Chancellor, because as Prime Minister I could not be dismissed by the Reich President without consent of the Prussian Parliament. However, as Chancellor, the President could dismiss me," declared Bruening...
...McCormick-Deering farm machinery, Harvester's No. 1 line, is not to be confused with the product of independent Deere & Co., whose rise to the status of a substantial competitor dates from the famed consent decree of 1918 which ended the "Harvester Trust...