Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...articles written by someone else. Richards, in The Philadelphia North American: " Molla [Mallory] has been fighting against Old Father Time for quite some years. The climax came when she suffered that crushing defeat at the hands of little Helen Wills. . . . Her recent defeat by Miss Eleanor Goss seems to confirm this belief...
General Wood's disclosure tended to confirm this opera bouffe conception of insular politics. On Feb. 16, 1923, General Wood sent to the Philippine Legislature a message dealing principally with the Philippine National Bank. The Legislature never heard the Governor's words because the Quezon-Osmena group which controls the Legislature quietly suppressed the message. Lately members of the Democratic (minority) Party began to agitate for a disclosure of the message which they had never seen. Finally General Wood published...
...absence abroad of J. B. Duke, George Whelan and other leading figures in the tobacco business, is held to confirm rumors of a $250,000,000 tobacco merger-the largest tobacco combine in the world-including the United States and Europe. It is understood that the Whelan-Duke interests are now negotiating with the British-American Tobacco Company, which is expected, together with the Tobacco Products Company, to form the nucleus of the new combine. In connection with the deal, the names of Philip Morris Co., Melachrino & Co., the Falk Tobacco Co., Schinasi Brothers, Stephano Brothers and others have been...
...bombshell was exploded under the placid forms of Sir Horace Rumbold and General Pelle, British and French representatives at Lausanne, when Ismet Pasha announced that concessions prior to 1914, which he had consented to confirm in the Concessions Protocol, invaded the Chester concessions, and that his agreement must be reconsidered...
...wholly without merit." If he gives up the annuity he will still be "the same man mentally and morally . . . still be chief justice. . . . On the other hand, suppose he did resign. What then? Harding is still President. He would appoint Taft's successor and the United States Senate would confirm the appointment. (Signed) Robert M. La Follette...