Word: confirm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...materials and equipment prices still another $137,000,000?a grand total of $359,000,000. Newshawks soon learned that they were considering an increase in freight rates to offset these costs. A terse, typewritten statement made public by the Association at the close of the meeting did not confirm this in so many words, but it emphasized that the "railroads have no sources of income other than money received for services performed for the public, and they are faced with the problem of finding a way to increase their revenues...
When the Senate refused to confirm Calvin Coolidge's appointees, that President could generally be counted upon to put up a stubborn fight for his men or else sulkily decline to name any others to office. Franklin D. Roosevelt is a President of a different stamp. Last week the Senate Commerce Committee voted (11- to-5) against his appointment of Dr. Willard Long Thorp as Director of the Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce. President Roosevelt sidestepped a tussle with the Senate by promptly withdrawing the nomination of Dr. Thorp who thereupon offered his resignation from the post...
...challenge was issued at Harvard, where Professor Salvemini teaches Italian literature. He is one of a fairly numerous class of foreign scholars who have been cast out from their own country by the rise of dictatorship and have found a refuge in American universities and colleges. This will confirm the opinion long held in wide circles that our colleges are only stagnant back-waters in the rapid flow of modern life, dedicated as ever to obsolete faiths and lost causes. They cling, for instance, to the outworn notion of liberty and give shelter to thinkers and scholars whom the iron...
Said Sheriff J. J. Smith of Jefferson County: "I will not confirm anything but I will say this: the affair looks powerful bad. . . . Somebody is trying to cover something...
Preoccupied with President Roosevelt's money methods, the Senate paused for a few minutes last week to confirm the appointment of a new chief for a government service which, excepting only the Post Office Department, touches more closely the daily lives of more U. S. citizens than any other-the U. S. Weather Bureau...