Word: consents
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Drastic Intervention. Monroe's successors not only upheld his doctrine-they extended it beyond the scope he originally gave to it. In 1845 James K. Polk declared, as the "settled policy" of the U.S., that "no future European colony or dominion shall with our consent be planted or established upon any part of the North American continent." Far broader was the Theodore Roosevelt extension of the Monroe Doctrine. Down through the 19th century, it was official U.S. policy that the Monroe Doctrine did not bar outside nations from using armed force against Latin American states to punish wrongs...
Allen Drury did two things when he began to make his fortune with Advise and Consent, a fascinating first novel about a fight in the U.S. Senate to reject the President's nominee for Secretary of State. First, he quit the New York Times. Second, knowing a mother lode when he struck one, he began a sequel to the book that has sold 2,350,000 copies in hard covers and paperbacks and been made into a play and a movie. In bulk, A Shade of Difference nearly matches Advise and Consent: 603 pp. v. 616. But in pace...
...years as a Congressman, Illinois Republican Noah Morgan Mason counted himself a lone voice speaking out against "socialistic government," a view that resulted in plenty of advice but little consent to New Deal, Fair Deal and Eisenhower programs alike. Now 82, the per snickety Welshman will retire this July 31. But "not to hibernate," he said. "I plan to become a missionary to the liberal heathen of the Hill . . . preaching conservatism to those members who yet may be saved to a happier future...
...wholesale cotton allotment transfers might be illegal. Why had officials been so slow to act on his warning? No answer was forthcoming. First. W. Lewis David. Marshall's onetime boss in Texas, told the committee he had approved Estes' operations-with Marshall's reluctant consent-under a Washington directive that such dealings were to be okayed if the applicant merely certified that the transaction was bona fide. Then Leonard C. Williams, a former Marshall aide, said that the dead official in 1960 had warned his staff that Estes' deals were fishy. The Agriculture Department agreed...
...Saskatchewan went into the second week of their strike against a new, compulsory state medical insurance plan, Premier Woodrow Lloyd's socialist government stoutly refused to give way on its plan. But the emerging question was whether-as happened with Prohibition-any legislation can be effective without the consent of the people it most closely concerns...