Word: consents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William Jennings Bryan: I ask unanimous consent to explain my vote...
...Chairman: The gentleman from Florida, Mr. Bryan, asks unanimous consent that he be permitted to explain his vote. Is there .objection? [Cries: 'Objection.' 'I object, I object!' 'No, no, no!'] The Chair hears none. Mr. Bryan will come to the platform. [Cheers and applause, mingled with hisses and booes...
...That by unanimous consent the Convention drop the name of the lowest candidate on each succeeding ballot until only two were left; objection was made and ruled this...
Premier Herriot's policy is, in its essential points, the same as that of Premier Poincaré: he will not consent to evacuate the Ruhr until after the operation of the Experts' Report has been effected; meanwhile he is showing toward the Germans a conciliatory attitude, lacking in Poincaré's policy, by freeing political prisoners and permitting expelled Germans to return to their homes and, most important, by giving Germany her last chance to eradicate her past abominations...
...Secretary. Slemp is a man whose element is politics. His assistance was as necessary to the newly-made President as the assistance of a social secretary is to a newly-rich woman. With the approach of the pre-Convention campaign, Mr. Coolidge selected (by and with the advice and consent of Mr. Stearns) William M. Butler to be his manager. Butler is a man amphibious both as to politics and business...