Word: confirmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beyound a Threat-Hope. President Eisenhower did not want to make a threat-even in retaliation-the major theme of his speech. He said that to dwell upon the possibility of atomic war would "be to confirm the hopeless finality of the belief that two atomic colossi are doomed malevolently to eye each other indefinitely across a trembling world...
...this field, within its own laboratory and in independent institutions.* It is our policy . . . to extend cooperation to projects where we believe that the researchers are approaching and will approach the subject without prejudice and without preconceived opinions . . . We are confident that long-range, impartial investigation . . . will confirm the view that neither tobacco nor its products contributes to the incidence of lung cancer...
...clause" (which gives a ball club complete control over its players' careers and prevents them from signing up with other teams) creates an illegal monopoly in violation of U.S. antitrust laws. In its 7-2 ruling (Justices Burton and Reed dissenting), the high court majority reached back to confirm Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes's famous 1922 opinion that baseball is not covered by the federal antitrust laws because it is not in interstate commerce...
Noble Causes. The bleats of innocence could be heard from Trenton to Albany. Nearly everyone, it seemed, had visited Joey on behalf of someone else or in the interest of some noble cause. The explanations tended to confirm reports that Fay was still firmly in command of the construction unions, that he was handing out jobs to "graduating" comrades at Sing Sing and to relatives of cooperative prison officials, and that he was masterminding the raceway shakedowns...
Citing the contingencies which bind Warren's nomination--the decision of the President to forward his nomination to the Senate, the decision of the President not to withdraw the nomination before it has been acted upon, and the decision of the Senate to confirm the nomination--Hart said that "he cannot believe that the Constitution contemplates that any federal judge, let alone a Chief Justice of the United States, should hold office, and decide cases with all these strings tied...