Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meditation. It was prefaced with an introduction by President Roosevelt (read by Archibald MacLeish). The four major networks and many independent stations-some 700 stations in all-contributed the time. It was the first of 13 shows suggested by the Office of Facts and Figures, designed to instruct and confirm the American spirit, and entitled This...
...loyalty to Joseph Stalin is unquestioned by Joseph Stalin, who ought to know. Stalin finds him useful in the way Hitler finds Artillery General Alfred Jodl useful-to be always at the elbow to answer questions, to advise, to refuse, to confirm. Boris Shaposhnikov's memory for detail is astonishing; he seems to know Clausewitz's Of War by heart...
...President is in fine shape," said his personal physician, Rear Admiral Ross T. Mclntire-and no one who looked at the President needed a rear admiral to confirm the statement...
Censor Price's own A.P. ran into a concrete censorship problem last week. While other newspapers and wire services vainly besought Navy for confirmation of the torpedoing of a second ship off New York last week, A.P. on its own hook got confirmation from the Coast Guard (now part of the Navy), released the story despite Navy's official declaration that it was "impossible to confirm" the news. Rival newsmen vainly redoubled their frantic appeals for official confirmation. Next day Navy confirmed the sinking, apologized for its "confusion...
...first feature, "Confirm or Deny," presents Don Ameche bringing history up to date as a reporter during the air attack on London of September, 1940. Joan Bennett is pleasant, and the romance is discreetly played down...