Word: consenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Along with the Board's enlarged authority over the country's currency and credit goes a greater responsibility for U. S. economic life than any single body has ever had before in U. S. history. Today the U. S. has a managed currency. With the advice and consent of the Administration, the Reserve Board is the manager. And in the management process a tremendous potential momentum toward Inflation has been built up. If this force is not properly braked, most disinterested observers agree that the U. S. may go on a reckless ride which would make the boom...
Though it denied these charges, Columbia last week signed a consent decree which left the Government with at least the appearance of triumph. In effect, Columbia agreed to get out of the Parish line by separating itself from Columbia Oil & Gasoline. The latter company will be reorganized as an independent concern, having no corporate connection with Columbia Gas & Electric. While this reorganization is in progress, the Parish line stock held by Columbia Oil & Gasoline will be put in the hands of a trustee, Gano Dunn, head of J. G. White Engineering Corp., onetime president of the American Institute of Electrical...
Signing of the consent decree was thought likely to result in an out-of-court settlement of a $180,000,000 damage suit brought by Mo-Kan receivers against Columbia Gas & Electric. The receivers, like the Government, argued that Columbia had throttled Mo-Kan through abuse of its control of Panhandle. But since Mr. Parish himself took a helpful part in the negotiations leading to the consent decree, it was believed that the $180,000,000 litigation would never face a judge...
...Full text: "We. therefore, the Lords spiritual and temporal of this realm, being here assisted with these of His late Majesty's Privy Council, with numbers of other principal gentlemen of quality, with the Lord Mayor. Aldermen and citizens of London, do now hereby, with one voice and consent of tongue and heart, publish and proclaim that the high and mighty Prince Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David is now. by the death of our late Sovereign of happy memory, become our only lawful, rightful Liege-Lord. Edward VIII, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland...
...edged sword: people simply condemn what condemns them. . . . My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image. . . . My detachment from things and persons is also affectionate, and simply what the ancients called philosophy: I consent that a flowing river should flow; I renounce that which betrays, and cling to that which satisfies, and I relish the irony of truth; but my security in my own happiness is not indifference to that of others: I rejoice that every one should have his tastes and his pleasures. That...