Word: consenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Referendum. In Holly Springs, Miss., Police Chief Jimmie Warren explained why the streets are lined with unused marking meters: "A good salesman sold he city the meters, but they are very unpopular. By common consent, nobody puts a coin in and nobody gets a ticket...
Last week Morse was at full voice. One day he blocked unanimous consent on an emergency bill making a technical change in the officer strength of the armed services. He didn't understand the bill, he said. After Armed Services Chairman Leverett Saltonstall patiently explained the bill, Morse could see no emergency, thought the change could wait for permanent legislation. Finally, Majority Leader Robert A. Taft rose and rammed the bill through on a voice vote...
...village elders of Marsella, 6,300 feet up in Colombia's Cauca Valley, weighed the arguments and gave consent -yes, it would be a good idea to give the district's youngsters inoculations against whooping cough and diphtheria. Thereupon, the traveling "sanitary educator," Roberto Agudelo Valencia, 32, jumped into his jeep, switched on the public-address system and drove around announcing a movie in the village square...
...companies agreed with all that, but not with the idea of automatically subjecting themselves to a civil suit even though the Government indicated it was willing to settle a civil case by an out-of-court consent decree. Oil company law yers, after a stormy meeting with Attor ney General James McGranery, called the offer "outrageous blackmail" and said they would never accept such an "insulting" proposal. Meanwhile, the companies, except Gulf, were still awaiting trial of another suit charging them with over pricing oil sold...
...Each member state must bind itself not to embark on military adventures in Europe without prior consent of all the others...