Word: consents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Secretary of State Dean Rusk tried to avoid appearing the Yankee colossus by recalling his own Georgia boyhood in "what people would now call underdeveloped circumstances . . . typhoid, pellagra, hookworm and malaria were a part of the environment in which Providence had placed us." But within a framework of democratic consent, said Rusk, an "alliance for progress" had been carried out within the U.S. And he eloquently pleaded: "Let us take action now to guard our own continent and our programs of democratic reforms against those who seek to replace democracy by dictatorship-those who would transform our fellowship of free...
Belin's opposition to the veto clause, which states specifically that "no money shall be expended under the Act without the consent of the City Councils of all the municipalities involved," has also been supported by the Cambridge Citizens' Advisory Committee...
...week, on the 105th anniversary of Woodrow Wilson's birth, hailed the 28th U.S. President as the "shaper of the first working plan for international cooperation among all peoples of the world. 'What we seek,' Wilson said, 'is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.' Every subsequent effort to create a stable world order has gone back for inspiration to his efforts and has owed much to his vision." The Wilson papers now being prepared for publication, said Kennedy, will serve...
...ended," he said in his State of the Union message last January, "we shall have to test anew whether a nation organized and governed such as ours can endure." In the years since Wilson, Americans and their Presidents have vanquished many threats from those who would abolish the "consent of the governed." But the test that faces the youngest elected and the most vigorous President of the 20th century - and all those who live under his leadership-is far greater: to meet and battle, in a time of great national peril, the marauding forces of Communism on every front...
...lawyers were sure that peppery Lee Loevinger, chief of Justice's Antitrust Division, had initiated the new action in reprisal for G.E.'s refusal to sign a consent decree under which the company would bind itself not to charge "unreasonably low" prices that might tend to harm competitors. Another theory was that Loevinger was worried by the vagueness of the proposed consent decree, which might make it legally untenable...