Word: consenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eighteen months ago the trust-busting division of the Department of Justice got its ears pinned back by crusty Federal Judge Ferdinand A. Geiger. When he found out that the Department was quietly discussing a consent decree with big finance companies and automobile manufacturers while a grand jury at Milwaukee was mailing an anti-trust investigation of motormakers' financing relationships, he denounced such shenanigans, summarily discharged the grand jury...
...that did not escape before. Only bounders will persist in selling pounds and buying dollars, but the British Government has marvelously effective ways of cracking down by the use of "influence." Thus one month after Britain had begun conscripting men, preparations were being made to conscript wealth, too-by consent...
...expensive of Martin's war babies, the first one cost $882,000 before its tests were completed. Last January, while Douglas was under scrutiny in the Senate for showing its new attack bomber to France before the U. S. had a crack at it-by and with the consent of President Roosevelt-Martin calmly went ahead with his order of 1675 for France...
...remembers when the whole U. S. Govern-ment ran itself on a billion dollars a year, last week rose to his feet in horror. Before the Senate was a bill appropriating $1,218,000,000 to run the Department of Agriculture in fiscal 1940. He earnestly asked unanimous consent to reconsider the $383,000,000 which the Senate had added to the House version of the bill. Would not his colleagues give second thought before approving the biggest Farm Bill in U. S. history...
That President Conant should consent to address the Teachers' Union is a long feather in the caps of organized teachers. It is a fitting tribute to wise leadership and constructive policy on the part of the local branch of the American Federation of Teachers that the President of Harvard, proudest and oldest university in the land, should be the first to kiss timidly the brow of organized labor...