Word: consenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both in Detroit and Chicago, Hall found, editors deliberately play down racial troubles in their own cities. The papers feel that full coverage of racial outbreaks might make them worse. By common consent, newspapers and radio stations in Chicago publish nothing about a tense race situation during its "incipient" stage; if a riot actually breaks out, they report it, but in the past tense as if it had already blown over, even if it should still be raging. Concludes Hall: "The race issue is not a Southern dilemma but a national problem. Discrimination is discrimination everywhere, not just when...
...exact fate of his machines is unknown. He hopes to find a college somewhere, possibly Harvard, which would consent to conduct a test...
...jackstraws. Every time you touch one, you are very apt to move the whole crowd, and equilibrium is, to a certain extent, destroyed. That is what we don't want." Asked if he would order "those Marines that were sent over to the Mediterranean" into war without the consent of Congress, Ike reddened with anger. "I get discouraged sometimes here ... I have announced time and time and time again [that] I am not going to order any troops into anything that can be interpreted as war unless Congress directs...
Something deeper is involved, which has to do with the quality and substance of the consent of the governed as that consent is registered by the political structure. Here, as on questions of foreign policy, the divisions among us stubbornly refuse to follow the familiar lines which separated "liberal" from "conservative" in economic matters...
Barnes wants United Fruit to consent to nothing less than "extensive divestiture of United's lands now actually used for the production of bananas in the tropics." Breaking up the company at the growing end would presumably give jobbers competitive sources of supply. But the trustbuster added that despite 16 extensions of time to answer the complaint. "United has made no satisfactory offer to settle. The Department of Justice," he concluded, "is now actively preparing this case for trial." But Stanley Barnes will not be trying it. Last month he was appointed to new responsibilities as a judge...