Word: consenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, to supervise her $200,-ooo suit against Disney Productions, Ltd. and RCA Manufacturing Co., went glucose-voiced Adriana Caselotti, who spoke as Snow White in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. She charged breach of contract, said her voice had been used on phonograph records without her consent, that she had been paid a pittance of less than...
...science, in surgery and mechanics, in navigation and agriculture, nay, even in mathematics, we find this distinction. Every where there is a class of men who cling with fondness to whatever is ancient, and who, even when convinced by overpowering reasons that innovation would be beneficial, consent to it with many misgivings and forebodings. We find also every where another class of men, sanguine in hope, bold in speculation, always pressing forward, quick to discern the imperfections of whatever exists, disposed to think lightly of the risks and inconveniences which attend improvements, and disposed to give every change credit...
...Palace to the joy of the working people and to the awe of the enemies of the people." A warning was given, however, that the new Finland would not be a Soviet State, "because the Soviet regime cannot be established by the efforts of the Government alone without the consent of the whole people, in particular the peasantry." As for an internal program...
...Helsinki. The Soviet Union, having cut off all communication with the now unrecognized Finnish Government, paid little heed to appeals delivered through third parties. As it began to appear more & more that the Finns would have to fight it out, Premier Ryti stout-heartedly declared: "We will not consent to bargain away our independence. . . . We will fight alone and we expect...
...document of the British Blue Book which places the war guilt on Germany is the British message to Germany on Aug. 28, three days before the invasion, saying that definite Polish consent to negotiate was at hand. That message, said the German Foreign Office, "was a sheer...