Word: consents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the German Government despatched an urgent note to the Allies in which it acceded to all the concessions which had been demanded before the Allies would consent to evacuate Cologne, and asked that the evacuation be carried out at once...
...shall be agreed, as an integral part of this arrangement, that China shall enforce a National Tariff Law not later than Jan. 1, 1929, with the consent of the powers, raising tariff schedules to between 7½% and 40% for most imports and to between 50% and 80% for luxuries...
...less than the $16 a week minimum wage established by law. The Arizona law was declared invalid, the decision being based on the Supreme Court's previous decision that the Minimum Wage Law of the District of Columbia was unconstitutional. Justice Brandeis dissented, and Justice Holmes gave his consent only on the grounds of the previous decision...
...this irreverent age of the insubordinate younger generation, the heroic example of one Edda, daughter of Mussolini who would not stir her little toe without her father's consent, smells sweeter than garlic in this naughty world. To complete the incident of her temptation, picture now one Hispano-Suiza whining to be thrown into high gear, an overpoweringly handsome member of the Black Hand or perhaps the Black Shirt Club, and a glorious Italian moon, that is as glorious a moon as moons in Italy may be. But Edda was not seduced by the promise of a wild ride behind...
...better spirit was, however, displayed by the Deputies, who noncon-curred the report of the committee, and voted that he should receive, out of the public treasury, five pounds a quarter. On a reference of this vote to the magistrates for their consent, they ordered to be inscribed upon it simply. "The magistrates consent not thereto...