Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President sent to the Senate the nomination of Attorney General Harlan F. Stone to be a Justice of the Supreme Court, succeeding Mr, Associate Justice McKenna, resigned (TIME, Jan. 12). When it was apparent that the Senate probably would confirm the appointment of Mr. Stone, the President followed it with the nomination of Charles Beecher Warren of Michigan to be Attorney General...
...Amendment have made great headway. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Honorary Chairman of the League of Women Voters, told her pro-Amendment following: "The amendment is as good as dead and buried and the obsequies performed, unless something is done about it and done quickly." Experienced observers were inclined to confirm her prediction. The opponents of the Amendment have succeeded to a marked degree-and this may be said without implying that they are wrong-in generating a real fear of its consequences. Fear is a tremendously important political asset. Fear of the League of Nations helped to give Mr. Harding...
...industrial news is beginning to confirm the speculative assumptions made so vigorously this fall by the stockmarket. Colonel Leonard P. Ayres of Cleveland, sage of pig iron, is cheerful over the iron and steel outlook. Increased steel buying and increased prices are reported; the industry is now operating on a 70% basis. Wheat futures continue to rise under shortage, while staple agricultural prices are high and firm. Many industries are patently turning the corner. Imports and exports of gold are both increasing, but despite large recent foreign loans floated here, domestic money remains abundant and cheap...
...lull ? then it was announced that the Cabinet and the President had resigned. The whereabouts of President Tsao Kun was unknown. Events that followed merely complicated an already complicated situation. It was impossible to confirm any news...
...presence whose mere thought has oft inspired a nightmare in the midst of daydreams. What perturbers of the sprit these winged devils are! More rumors still, though less distinct, of other changes to be wrought, more parvenu intruders in the moss-grown ranks. They come, these leser rumors, to confirm the growing strife of mind that sets on to rebellion 'gainst the whole regime of change. For alas! the habits of three hundred years are not with ease to be cast off, like cobweb fancies...