Word: confirm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within 24 hours, Utah's Republican Senator Arthur V. Watkins, Lyon's sponsor, withdrew his support. Then Lyon himself, realizing that the committee would not confirm him, withdrew his name. Director John J. Forbes, a coal mine safety specialist who has worked in the bureau 38 years, will stay on until someone else is appointed. The main responsibility for proposing so vulnerable a nominee as Lyon rested on one man: Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay, who had insisted that Lyon...
...vanished. Then the region was dominated by the fierce, nomadic Dakotas, a branch of the Sioux that had formerly been of minor importance. Archaeologists of the Smithsonian Institution, racing to beat the great dams rising along the Missouri, have been excavating Indian sites on the river bottoms. They now confirm the old tall tales...
Room Service. For the price of two telegrams, plus 50?, Western Union will reserve hotel rooms for travelers in any U.S. city, confirm them by wire...
...Lawrence. The students are a homogeneous group--a little too similar and politically unconscious according to some of the faculty--and they like Pusey's restrained manner. "We're not sophisticated here," one girl said, and the undergraduates pitching pennies in front of their fraternity house seem to confirm her view...
...Lawrence. The students are a homogeneous group--a little too similar and politically unconscious according to some of the faculty--and they like Posey's restrained manner. "We're not sophisticated here," one girl said, and the undergraduates pitching pennies in front of their fraternity house seem to confirm her view...