Word: consenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor John W. Bricker having cleared the way for him, Ohio's Senator Robert Alphonso Taft last week, put his hand to his brow, looked into the future (see cut) and issued his written "consent" to be designated Ohio's favorite son for 1940. Wrote he: ". . . The unpleasant job which lies before the next President of the United States is such that no sensible man could be eager to assume it. Unless the whole present tendency of the Government is redirected, we cannot long maintain financial solvency or free enterprise or even individual liberty in the United States...
...making explosives. Meanwhile, the Swiss did a curious broker business. Germany needed French carbide-cyanamide for saltpeter, French bauxite for aluminum; France needed German iron and steel for emergency railroad tracks and barbed wire entanglements. Swiss dummies arranged the exchange of these commodities, with the tacit consent of the belligerents. The governments did not care whether German soldiers died on barbed wire that originated in a German factory, or whether British ships were torpedoed by German submarines made, in part, of aluminum from French bauxite, so long as the war was fought to a finish...
...hardly started when the Allies had to appeal to the House of Morgan for help in financing their huge purchases in the U. S. First, J. P. Morgan & Co. advanced credits of a few millions. Then, when the Wilson administration gave its consent, Allied loans were floated publicly to a total of about $2,500,000,000-mostly through Morgan auspices...
Still hopeful, the engineers proceeded to the main experiment: a signal sent by remote control from a 100,000-watt transmitter 10 miles away at Hicksville, L. I., the antenna of which pointed toward Mars at an angle of 30°. By common consent, the "message" was a meaningless succession of dots and dashes. Astronomer Fisher and associates figured that if the signal traveled 36,030,000 miles and back at 186,000 mi. a second, the round trip would take 6 min. 28 sec. The key was tapped. For 6 min. 28 sec. everyone waited. Nothing happened. After...
...diversify its portfolio and participate in the financing and underwriting of new capital issues in the public utility and other fields." As a first step United asked permission to invest $8,000,000 of its $12,400,000 of cash in industrial common stocks. Last March SEC gave consent; last week United showed that it had begun...