Word: consenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill went to House-Senate conference. There Mr. Roosevelt's men contrived a deal with the silver Senators, promised that the Treasury would pay 70.95? for domestic silver metal. So with the silverites' consent the dollar devaluation power was restored to the bill. This deal infuriated the hard-money...
After twelve years of bickering, with or without Adolf Hitler's consent, Germany will at last have to pay about 40? on the dollar. In custody of the U. S. Treasury is some $20,000,000, including property seized from German nationals during the War and income from bonds which Ger many posted as collateral, later defaulted...
Many a small businessman confronted by a National Labor Relations Board complaint has ruefully decided it was cheaper to sign a consent decree, setting up new labor conditions in his plant, than to fight the case. Hartley Wade Barclay, editor of the industrial monthly Mill and Factory discovered one big reason why this is true. Intrigued by wholesale capitulation of small business in labor cases, Editor Barclay investigated the cost of defenses to NLRB complaints. Ruling out the automobile company cases because the amounts expended were so large that they would unbalance his study, he last week published his finding...
Brought up first on the unanimous consent calendar, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Bill needed a two-thirds vote after Democrat Kent Keller of Illinois objected to postponing consideration, called for suspension of the rules. Opposition to the plan then became explicit...
Hereafter, when the Department of Justice looks prosecution-wise at any industry, its representatives can go to Washington, get the advice of such experts as Dr. Willard Long Thorp, top-flight Commerce Department economist, on the "economic aspects" of any consent decree to be proposed. The Department of Commerce explained that it wants to advise Business on steps which could not properly be discussed by the prosecuting Department of Justice. Since the right hand will know perfectly well what the left hand is doing, this will make it possible for the Government to prosecute and trade with Business...