Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forward, with the gigantic purpose of overthrowing not only the existing government of the United States, but the entire social system as well. The evidence as to the Communist intent, however, is indisputable, whatever doubts may be entertained as to the practicality of their plans; the intercepted dispatches only confirm what observers in Russia and students of the soviet regime have already reported. Mr. John Cowles, who visited Russia in September and October, writes, "I am convinced--which I was not, before visiting Russia--that the bolshevist leaders are still determined to try to bring about world revolution. They...
...citizens of the State, and has served in many civil capacities. He was, for example, appointed Commissioner of Immigration. Born in Rochester, N, Y., he was educated abroad at Cambridge, Munich and Rome. When he was first nominated for Coadjutor Bishop of San Francisco, Pope Pius X refused to confirm the appointment, suspecting Hanna of "modernism," but finally, in 1915, Hanna was consecrated Archbishop of San Francisco...
...comedy of appointments came to an end. In June, 1922, President Harding nominated Joseph W. Tolbert, National Committeeman from South Carolina, as Federal Marshal. Senator Dial of that state charged Tolbert with political simony and the Senate failed to confirm the nomination. Subsequently...
Rumored Engaged. Miss Jeanne Eagels, leading lady in Rain, to Whitney Warren, Jr., son of Architect Whitney Warren of Manhattan. Both Miss Eagels and Mr. Warren, Jr., refused to confirm the report. Mr. Warren's father issued an emphatic denial...
...over-strain and overwork to which he has been subjected. Even those who were most hitter against the theories of President Wilson condemned a system which produced the tragic figure of an executive broken by the terrific strain of his office. And the death of President Harding served to confirm a suspicion that the exaction of presidential duties is too great for a man who is no longer in his physical prime...