Word: confirmable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other country such statements as General Doihara's would have forced leaders such as Hongkong Hu to confirm or deny that he had correctly unmasked their attitude. In China no amount of unmasking, denial or confirmation ever settles anything, and so far as Chinese were concerned last week, General Doihara's talk was just talk. In San Francisco indignant Chinese friends of Hongkong Hu announced off their own bats, without confirmation from him, that "Hu Han-min's policy has been and unalterably will be 'China for the Chinese, first and last...
...Naturally, the problem is not this simple in reality, as public utility men will loudly declaim. But on the whole, the policy of the President appears to be one of favoring big business first, and groups like the National Chamber of Commerce are slowly coming to realize and confirm this fact...
...Archbishop Pascual Diaz, sat grimly in the Archiepiscopal Palace in Mexico City. While the Government persecuted his flock, the Primate of All Mexico, who is a pure Jalisco Indian, held in reserve one dread (to Catholics) weapon, the awful word of excommunication, which he may pronounce, the Pope may confirm...
Playfair could not be reached either in Cambridge or at his home to confirm a rumor from a reliable source that he may resign from the Council. It is considered likely that any action of this kind will remain in abeyance until the investigation is completed...
...Catholic offices and news services were unable last week to confirm the report of the Pope's ban. Observers recalled that last year a papal film called The Shepherd of the Seven Hills was widely and commercially exhibited (TIME, Aug. 21, 1933). Currently the Pope appears and speaks in Man of Courage, a full-length commercial picture dedicated to the glory of Fascism and Mussolini...