Word: consents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when gross annual earnings had reached the sum of $10,000,000. Mr. Titus brought suit against Burnee Corp. His claim: That transfer of stock to the new company in 1915 was made without his consent and in violation of his rights. His demand: That he be given an accounting of and a share in the profits. The decision: New York Supreme Court Justice Peter A. Hatting held that Plaintiff Titus could not share in the millions he had refused to help build up. Justice Hatting pointed out that Plaintiff Titus knew of the transfer of stock rights...
Indeed, it would seem that Professor Rogers should have directed his remarks not to the boys at the Massachusetts Tech, but to their parents. The latter will take a lot of converting before they consent to see their gilded youth start out on a career of extravagance and bumptiousness. It may even be the case that a purse-proud father would not be entirely happy to see his daughter become engaged to a snob of the purest water. If he had to make his choice between the two authorities, the chances are that he would prefer Thackeray to Professor Rogers...
...decided upon as the total due with the $21,000,000,000 that was fixed at the London conference of 1921. Evidently in their anxiety at seeing their prospects dwindle with every consideration of the problem, the creditor nations are glad to win Germany's consent to a sum greatly below their original hopes rather than have the matter remain any longer in doubt...
...divert popular attention from the unpleasant subject by a great display of traffic-controlling in the midtown districts. But nobody cares deeply. The subways are still hideously crowded, but even Wall Street millionaires still ride on them cheerfully. Additional busses have never materialized because, with the Mayor's consent, a franchise was awarded to a worthless company. These sins of omission New York's millions of voters are ready to forgive, owing chiefly to inertia, other diversions, and the persuasive good-fellowship of Tammany Hall...
Although the consent of Cornell has not yet been procured to allow Tech to enter the Harvard-Cornell race on Saturday, due to the postponement of the races last Saturday, it is expected that Cornell will consent to a triangular regatta since there seems to be no other convenient way to arrange for the Crimson to match up with her downstream rivals...