Word: consents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rule of Rules. The rest of Kennedy's legislative program shortly met with an utter rout in the House at the hands of Virginia's leathery old Howard W. Smith, who has been a Congressman since Kennedy was 13 years old. The consent of Chairman Smith's powerful Rules Committee is needed to send a House bill into Senate-House conference. Backed up by the committee's long-time alliance of Republicans and Southern Democrats, conservative "Judge" Smith handed Northern Democrats a tough warning: the committee would kill off Kennedy's $1.25-an-hour minimum...
FICTION 1. Advise and Consent, Drury...
...consent, generally set at 16 to 18 years, ranges from 12 in Alabama to 21 in Tennessee...
...become so prevalent that churchmen are seriously concerned. Only last month, the House of Laity (which, along with the House of Bishops and the House of Clergy, makes up The National Assembly of the Church of England) requested vicars and curates to refrain from exorcism without the express consent of their bishops...
FICTION 1. Advise and Consent, Drury...