Word: confirmable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate must confirm the appointment of any WPA appointee whose salary is $5,000 or more per year...
...Means!" Meanwhile last week the liner President Roosevelt cleared from Manhattan for Le Havre, France, with her holds jampacked and her decks stacked with lashed-on piles of heavy motor trucks and tractors easily convertible into tanks. The Spanish Leftist consul would neither deny nor confirm that all this was bound for Barcelona via Le Havre, but Leftist Manhattan dockworkers openly jubilated as they loaded the President Roosevelt, declared some of the equipment was lettered in Spanish. Should a "pirate submarine" sink the President Roosevelt, Spanish observers felt this would have its effect on U. S. public opinion...
...party stumbled on Gueffroy's skis. By prodding with bamboo poles through the new surface snow, searchers were able to tell where his feet had broken through the crust of the old snow. So they followed his trail, every few feet digging down to the crust to confirm their soundings. All that day and half the next they followed his confused, straggling steps deep into Sand Canyon...
...Morgenthau, knowing that silver and politics have been well-mixed for over half a century, was playing innocent-as he was last week when he refused to confirm the obvious fact that he was now mixing silver and oil. For the wording of his statement made it perfectly clear that he had withdrawn his subsidy in retaliation for President Cárdenas' seizure of $400,000,000 worth of foreign oil investments (TIME, March 28). The action had been taken, said the Secretary, "in view of the decision of the Government of the United States to re-examine certain...
...into the scientific world and the physicists were so anxious to hear him that a special conference was arranged. Dr. Charles Thomas Zahn of the University of Michigan, who had been independently working along the same line, was summoned by telegraph, arrived, reported that he was unable to confirm the Jauncey results. Zahn, however, had used a differently arranged apparatus. Nobel Laureate Arthur Holly Compton of the University of Chicago, a onetime colleague of Jauncey's at St. Louis, pored over his experiments, pronounced them competently done but would not commit himself as to their validity. Dr. Compton added...