Word: consents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first stocks to go, and go farthest, was Devoe & Raynolds, from $140 to $40. Justly indignant at aspersions cast, Treasurer De Lancey Kountze declared : "If there is any maniplation . . . it is being done without the knowledge or consent, directly or indirectly, of the corporation or any of its officers...
Next day the Senate took action. By unanimous consent the rules were laid aside so that the bill could be taken up immediately. Senator Smoot, Chairman of the Finance Committee, like Mr. Green in the House, explained that it was the best bill that could be got. Senator Fletcher of Florida attacked the bill because estate taxes had been restored in conference. And Senator Neely of West Virginia declared it was a millionaire's bill, and wanted the taxes on admissions and on automobiles entirely stricken out. He moved to recommit the bill. Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader...
...Lady Diana edited Femina, a sheetlet with which admirers said she made and unmade fashions and politicians. The year before she had won Queen Mary's consent to her entering the "flickers" (cinema). A husband was by no means a whole career for her. She talked of self-expression, said the cinema was "the most real form of romance modern life expresses." When invited to play the Madonna, which she alternates with the Nun in The Miracle, she "felt almost as though I had a vocation to act the part...
What of the immediate future? Would there be radical changes in the relations of State and Church? Would the Pope come out from prison? Would he consent to be once more an Italian as well as a world power? "It is all conversations," replied the Cardinal. "He [Mussolini] does us an amiable favor from time to time but nothing is changed. I see no prospect of a change. Papal Rome is adamant." In a last attempt to strike a spark of Italian patriotism, the reporter asked about the proposed revivification of the Roman Empire. The Cardinal chuckled: "Oh, you like...
Benito Dixit. "The adjective 'sovereign' as applied to 'the people' is a tragic burlesque! . . . Governments exclusively based on the consent of the governed have never existed, do not exist, and will probably never exist. . . . Can you imagine a war proclaimed by referendum? . . . I do not tell you, O people, that you are as gods. As I love you truly, so I should say to you that you are dirty, you must arise and cleanse yourselves; you are ignorant, therefore set yourselves to gain instruction. . . . Horny hands are not enough to prove a man capable of guiding a state. . . . We must...