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...such-to cheer a personal friend, to assuage the hurt of a defeated candidate, to grant a political boon. Last week the U.S. Senate, which is also politically minded, brusquely brought it to Harry Truman's attention that such appointments are made only "with the advice and consent of the Senate...
...clubby congressional custom, this meant the advice and consent of the Senator whose home state is involved. Typical was the case of M. Neil Andrews, nominated for a judgeship in Georgia's Northern District. Georgia's Senator Richard Russell complained that he had submitted a nominee of his own and been ignored. "Personally obnoxious and objectionable to me," said Russell, using a ritualistic phrase. The corroborating chorus of noes was deafening...
...been measured for 834,000 men, admitted it would need a million by year's end. For the first time, it dipped into its unorganized reserve for 62,000 enlisted men, to be called in September and October for 21 months' duty, "with or without their consent, from both the volunteer and inactive reserves...
...Pacini, representing the women of Orvieto, went to see the bishop. To the bishop's chancellor, pale, large-cheeked Francesco Troili, she shouted: "What's this about moving and smashing and substituting the reliquary without the people's consent?" Troili answered: "Who are you to question the bishop's decisions?" Pounding her breast, Lea wailed: "That's dictatorship...
Underground Prince. On Paris streets, wispy old women still peddled literature advocating a return to Bourbon rule, but the royalist cause has been as good as dead for years. By tacit consent of the government itself, 36-year-old Prince Louis Napoleéon, the Bonapartist pretender, had been calmly ignoring the Law of Exile ever since World War II. A well-heeled young businessman, Prince Louis Napoléeon was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor for his leadership in the French underground during the war. Since then he has spent a good part of every year...