Word: confirm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...woman, who were jailed in Palma, Mallorca, last June for hitting and insulting a member of Spain's crack police, the Guardia Civil (TIME, July 24). All five had been acquitted last October by a military court. But custom required a military auditor to review and confirm such a verdict. It happened that the auditor was a monarchist and not above embarrassing the Republican government's diplomatic relations with the U. S. He appealed the case to the Supreme Court, irascibly demanding jail sentences of six months and a day. The court saw that four of the five...
...visitors in his parlor take too much alarm Jesse Jones hastened to send word to the stockholders of Chicago's First National who met last week to confirm the sale of $25,000,000 of preferred stock to the RFC (an amount precisely equal to their own holdings). His pledge: the RFC would not interfere in the choice of a chairman for their bank, a job that is also vacant. The First National stock- holders believed him, voted to sell the preferred stock...
...annual disbursement of $3.20 a share, a dividend should be declared at the June meeting of your board of directors. I would suggest, therefore, that it would be in order for your board to declare a quarterly dividend equal to 20% annually. . . . Please be good enough to promptly confirm this arrangement. . . ." And its reply: "As you are aware, a dividend of this amount has not been earned. In ad dition to that, the trust company is setting up no reserves and we feel that it is not as it should be." Mr. Pecora: Don't you think that your...
...actual quality is concerned, the water in Ireland is equally as good for the purpose of distillation of whiskies as anywhere else. . . . Any whiskey expert in the United States of America will confirm this statement...
TIME erred in calling Stanford's dark-haired Corbus "blond," but let Reader Hill mend his talk. Stanford's Corbus was named right guard on Grantland Rice's 1932 All-American team, as Grantland Rice's Manhattan office (telephone: Mohawk 4-7500) will confirm. To the Princeton freshman team and its small, twinkling Coach Johnny Gorman (the quarterback who, in the 1922 Princeton-Chicago game, called for and caught a historic forward pass in the shadow of his own goal) 23 subscriptions to TIME. To Reader Hill, the bill...