Word: consents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Italy will also be invited to the reparations conference. Premier Mussolini, speaking in the Chamber, outlined Italy's attitude to the reparations problem: 1) Germany must be made to pay a certain sum-by common consent the Allies have fixed the amount at $11,900,000,000. 2) No adjustment must be tolerated that will give any nation political, economic or military hegemony over the rest of Europe. (An intimation that the French will not be allowed to occupy, permanently the Ruhr.) 3) Italy will bear her share of necessary sacrifices in order to facilitate reconstruction of Europe...
...performance in the H. A. A. handicap meet last Saturday, but still feels that under favorable conditions he is capable of covering four laps on the Stadium track in less than 4 minutes 12 3-5 seconds. He communicated with the H. A. A. and, with its consent, he is planning to make a second attempt to lower the mark at 5.40 o'clock on Wednesday. This race will take place directly after the Yale baseball game, and large crowd of enthusiasts will probably be on hand to encourage him in his record-breaking attempt...
...Herbert L. Pratt has been chosen to be the head of the Standard Oil Company of New York, to replace Mr. Henry C. Folger, who resigned shortly after the Board of Directors failed to secure the stockholders' consent to an increase of capitalization from $225,000.000 to $300,000,000. This shift in the oil line-up has drawn public attention to the personalities, policy, present condition and past history of this oldest of American trusts...
...been announced this year that undergraduates with an average of B or better for the previous academic year and men who, for special reasons, have obtained the consent of the Dean of the College, may be allowed to count toward the degree of A. B. or S. B. two summer courses. No other undergraduates will be permitted to obtain credit for more than one half-course...
...believe that any kind of betting on cards or horses or football is a horrible vice, comparable in its depravity, as some writers have declared, only with drunkenness and prostitution. Their fathers would have added dancing to the list, and certainly theatre-going. On no account will they consent to what is called its 'recognition' by the State. They ignore the fact that we have never had a King nor a Prime Minister, nor probably very many Bishops or Archbishops, who have not been addicted in some more or less modest degree to this unmentionable vice...