Word: confirm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that point Secretary Roper, who was anxious to get the charade over with so the Senate would confirm his fellow-South Carolinian J. Monroe Johnson as the new Assistant Secretary of Commerce, took the stand. To him his ousted assistant was "of an exceedingly suspicious temperament," responsible for "a veritable log jam" in the Department. Said...
...evidence uncovered seems to confirm the generally supported theory that the deep ocean valleys cutting into the continental shelf were formed by rivers which flowed into the Atlantic before the continental shelf sank belaw...
When the Board of Directors met in Manhattan next day, four Gimbels (unnamed) were on Richard's side. But Cousin Bernard rounded up enough votes to confirm Richard's dismissal, appoint Mr. Kaufmann to succeed him. Again, Richard met the newshawks, told them the executives of other Gimbel stores were "scabs," then blurted menacingly: "If you boys are going to take sides, better choose the right side." Philadelphia newspapers saved themselves the trouble by discreetly ignoring the whole fight...
Newshawks noticed first that no court stenographer was present-a fact tending to confirm reports that Nazi jurists, knowing that their proceedings are sometimes indefensible, take care to leave no record of the Volksgerricht's proceedings lest a future German Government be moved to hang the jurists of today...
Recent discoveries in archeology: Palestine. Sir Charles Marston is spending much of his bicycle fortune for archeological research because he believes the world is a little better off every time his diggers confirm some scrap of Biblical history. Marston-financed is the expedition of Wellcome Historical Medical Museum of London, now probing the site of ancient Lachish, southwest of Jerusalem. Last month Expedition Leader J. L. Starkey & staff turned up twelve fragments of pottery bearing the name, written in ink, of many a notable figure of the decadent period from Solomon's first temple...