Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coming of a second Diaz. Events of a most crucial week in the eternal struggle: Race against Time. During the last hours before the Calles decrees expelling the clergy from their churches came into effect last week Catholic prelates in Mexico continued their recent "race against time" to baptize, confirm and marry as many of the faithful as possible...
...German nobility of property seized from them by the German Republic. The Fascists flayed the "Communist robbers" because they are whooping up German voters to ballot, on June 20, in a national referendum (TIME, Feb. 15 et seq.) which-if 20,000,000 votes are cast-will confirm and legalize the Republic's seizures of property. In the Prussian Landtag, both Communists and Fascists grunted and howled when Herr Hőpker-Aschoff, Prussian Minister of Finance, attempted an "impartial" speech as follows: "While I am personally against confiscation, I must observe that it is not fair to call...
...work has tended strongly to confirm the belief of the scientific world that Maya history saw a gradual shifting of population from the south to the north. Why magnificent southern cities like Copan in Northern Honduras and Tikal in Guatemala were abandoned is still a riddle. The exodus from them about 600 A. D. may have been caused by exhaustion of the soil or by epidemic or by some other danger yet unproved. But there seems no doubt that the Mayas did migrate gradually northward and that their cities in Northern Yucatan were the last ones they built...
Nevertheless, the Senate adjourned stubbornly refusing to confirm Mr. Woodlock's appointment; the former Wall Street editor took seat without guarantee of pay; participated in the momentous anti-Van Sweringen decision...
...confirm in the spirit and the letter my former speech, including the final allusion to the Italian flag on the Brenner Pass, which Stresemann can interpret as he will, but which Italians interpret in the sense that Italy will never submit to the violation of treaties of peace which guarantee their frontiers conquered at such a heavy price of blood...