Word: consenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vandenberg precipitated hot debate by objecting to an increase of $20,000,000 in the capital of Disaster Loan Corp. (RFC offshoot). At length a clerk informed the sheepish Senate that it had already settled that issue when it passed RFC's life-extension on the unanimous consent list some hours before...
Elmer Andrews' lawyers have also filed six civil suits, obtained four settlements in workers' favor by consent decrees. At the maximum, defendants in civil actions may be compelled to pay their employes twice the difference between substandard wages and the wages due under the act. In practice, when an employer consents to settle without trial, he may get off by paying the actual difference (plus court costs...
...BARKLEY: I ask unanimous consent that . . . the Senate . . . stand in adjournment until Thursday next...
...been soundly rebuked by the Senate which turned down (72 to 9) his nomination of a Virginia judge over the heads of Virginia's Senators Byrd & Glass, the President gave the Senate his version of Article II of the Constitution. Substance: the Senate's power of "advice & consent" in Presidential nominations was meant to be a consultative function of the Senate as a whole, usurped the President's appointive power if it was invoked by one or two Senate soreheads. Soreheads Byrd & Glass, along with other Constitutionalists, still maintained that the appointive power was dual...
...perhaps the best man who ever lived, voluntarily submitted to death at the hands of an imperfect government rather than save his life by breaking the laws which had been established by consent." Called the same day to the Chancellorship of the Fascist-threatened Republic, he draws up a sound economic program, a speech to men of good will...