Word: consents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pepper's Proposal. The Senate should consent to the U. S. becoming adherent to the World Court on the following conditions: 1) that some 16 amendments should be made in the "statute" or charter by which the League created the Court; 2) that the U. S. qualify its adherence to the Court by a number of reservations; 3) that the U. S. in entering the Court should not commit itself, under the optional clause of the statute, to compulsory jurisdiction of the Court...
...resulted in quarantine of the church and of the homes of nine of the flock, by the local authorities. The sick families were then compelled to submit to medical treatment. One Mrs. Charles Roth, who had lost her husband and four children during the epidemic, would not give verbal consent to the inoculation, although she submitted peaceably...
...matter ia dispute, the scope of the powers of the Court, and the periods for the several stages of procedure, and such special agreements on the part of the United States can only be made by the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof...
...proposed Child Labor Amendment to the Constitution, passed by the House, pined away in the Senate. Senator Lodge asked unanimous consent to consider it immediately following the tax bill. Senator Wadsworth demurred. It is extremely doubtful whether it will ever come before the Senate at this session. Mr. Wadsworth objected-and if he had not, others would have-so the Amendment hung its head and shuffled off the Senate calendar...
...Protestant, he was bounced to Boston. He would have found in session, The Church Congress, the proceedings of which were, by comparison, tame. Bishop Lawrence celebrated Holy Communion. Incense was not perceptible. Dr. Kirsopp Lake, of Harvard, said: "Bible and Church have frequently been wrong and their complete consent will prove in the end to have less power than truth and facts, for these alone are valid, authentic and infallible." No one threw bricks at him. Miracles, divorce, industry, eugenics, creeds, were all quite thoroughly discussed. All present were Protestants, protesting as they chose against whatever untruth or unrighteousness...