Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in the bowels of a German salt mine at Merkers, U.S. soldiers came upon the comely queen. The painted limestone head was buried in a debris of art objects and gold bars cached in the mine by nervous Nazis. Waiting only long enough to confirm the news, the newly belligerent Egyptian Government filed its first war claim: hand over Nefertete...
...George bill, the U.S. Senate had made its condition of appointment, and the President had signed it. Now that RFC's billions were out of Henry Wallace's reach, there was nothing much to do but confirm him as Secretary of Commerce. The Senate did-56-to-32. Wallace set out to be the greatest Secretary of Commerce since Herbert Hoover...
...Senators into a bill which would make Henry Wallace acceptable to the Senate as Commerce Secretary. Now, if the anti-Wallaceites in the House could tie the bill up in committee (or amend or reject it, thereby returning it to the Senate), the Senate might have to vote on confirming Wallace as both Commerce Secretary and loan administrator. Then, for the first time since the Coolidge Administration, the Senate might refuse to confirm a Cabinet appointment...
...anti-Wallacemen were deaf. In the hottest terms, Bailey denounced Wallace as the preceptor of wild economics, a "dangerous" man whom it would be "immoral" to confirm. The caucus broke up, with nothing but a bitter taste in everyone's mouth...
...grey-haired old man slipped unnoticed into St. Paul's Cathedral in London. A centuries-old ceremony, the service to confirm the election of Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher as Archbishop of Canterbury (TIME, Jan. 15), was under...