Word: consents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...floor; 2) If a bill is approved by a Committee, its Chairman may not pocket the bill but must report it to the House-failing which another member of the Committee is to report the bill; 3) To prevent a bill from being advanced on the calendar by "unanimous consent," three (not one) objections must be made...
...second attempt, Senator Spencer, Republican, of Missouri, got into The Congressional Record a magazine article on The Scientific Political Training of Calvin Coolidge (TIME, Jan. 14). He could not secure unanimous consent to have it printed, so he was obliged to read it on the floor of the Senate whereby it officially became part of the proceedings. As he read, one Democrat after another rose and requested his permission to speak...
...Prohibiting, even by unanimous consent, the granting of any request to speak on any matter not related to the subject in hand. Saving: indefinite...
...seemed fair to announce that the petition to the Senior Nominating Committee calling for a recount of the votes for Class Orator was submitted without the knowledge or consent of the candidates and solely to settle any doubts which might have been raised concerning the validity of the election. FRANCIS E. BOWMAN...
...people of India, with the consent of the Viceroy elected him to present India's case at the Near Eastern Peace Settlement. In 1921, he went to the Washington Disarmament Conference, as press representative for India. His broad knowledge, cosmopolitan experience and sympathies, and his compelling eloquence and personality have brought him the reputation of being the foremost authority on the cultural, economic and political relations between the East and the West...