Word: confirm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Promising his party and city that he would not be a candidate in any special election, Acting Mayor Corr said he would adhere strictly to the Cermak policies of "economy, retrenchment and good government." Then he sat back to wait for the Legislature to confirm his dubious powers. With its employes still going unpaid, Chicago's most urgent need is for cash. Until the Legislature acts, Acting Mayor Corr's signature on $40,000,000 worth of tax anticipation warrants is worthless...
...HAVE JUST READ ARTICLE STOP I WISH TO COMPLETELY CONFIRM HIS STATEMENTS...
...provided. Fifteen of them, all insolvent and living in the same county, could petition a Federal judge who in turn would appoint a conciliation commissioner. This official would receive the debtors' schedules, call in creditors and attempt to work out a compromise which the court would later confirm. The hitch with a farmer's debts is that he generally owes only a single creditor, the holder of the mortgage on his farm. If he refuses to dicker, the farmer is balked at the outset in producing the kind of majority agreement the court requires before discharging the debtor...
...exodus threatened to become a stampede, Peiping newspapers published an amazing story, impossible to confirm. Far north in Manchuria, they declared, 60,000 Chinese irregulars had suddenly appeared under General Yang Shou-chu, captured six towns, 600,000 rounds of ammunition, 1,200 rifles, 282 Japanese officers & men, 16 mountain guns, 14 field guns and 13 machine guns. To this Chinese-rumored victory was added the assertion that "20 of the captured Japanese were executed on the spot though $100,000 gold was offered to spare their lives...
...handling League of Nations loans, and transfers among Europe's central banks. In his 1932 report President McGarrah was able to show a B. I. S. profit for the fiscal year of 15,182,818 Swiss francs ($2,929,524) and proudly declared, "It is a satisfaction to confirm that the usefulness and use of the bank . . . for joint financial action has been greatly enhanced during the period of stress...