Word: confirm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White House gave no such ready assurance. Week after week went by with no sign that the President was going to send Sprague's name to the Senate for confirmation. After nearly four weeks, an embarrassed Sprague wrote the President: "Unless I hear from you, I will proceed on the assumption that my name will not be sent . . ." He would stay around two more days, he wrote, then pack up and go home. Two days later, toward evening, Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams telephoned. The President and G.O.P. leaders in the Senate had discussed the problem at breakfast that morning...
Under the court's rules, lawyers or witnesses could only confirm or deny what newsmen asked them, were forbidden to volunteer information. It turned out to be a broad charter. Before the trial had well begun, it was plain that opposing lawyers notably Pat Ward's elegantly dressed belligerent lawyer J. Roland Sala (see NEWS IN PICTURES), were letting out bits of evidence to help their side, and attempting to try the case in the newspapers. After each court session, Star Witness Pat Ward, 19, who had started the whole case by charging that Jelke was boss...
This is not to condemn the President's domestic statements as a whole. It was not a "reactionary" speech, as carped the "Daily Worker," nor a "mollycoddling" speech, as said certain editorialists in deep right field. But it did confirm what many had feared: that many open sores on the body of democracy will not find treatment for at least another few-years...
However, there were plenty of cases. At Indiana's DePauw University, 230 students out of 1,800 reported sick within 24 hours. The university shut down for a week. While state health officials labored to confirm the disease's identity, students were in no doubt. They dubbed it "gaumboo" and sometimes added a coughed syllable for emphasis...
...problem all over again. Defense Secretary designate Charles F. Wilson had derived a healthy income from several million dollars worth of General Motors stock, and is reluctant to give it up. But the Senate indicated it could not confirm his appointment if he held the stock since he, like Ilgenfritz, would be violating a law. Wilson is adamant. The money is his; he wants to keep it. Wilson seems intent on putting personal gain above government service. It matters not that General Motors has the Defense Department's largest contract, and that the law says that a government official cannot...