Word: confirmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appointment. The permanent appointment will be subject to three future contingencies; (1) the decision of the President to forward his nomination to the Senate; (2) the decision of the President not to withdraw the nomination before it has been acted upon; and (3) the decision of the Senate to confirm the nomination. The Senate will be entirely free, if it chooses, to postpone its action until near the close of the session in order to see how the new nominee is going to vote...
...confirm that sort of thinking, the Bank of England (followed by the Bank of France) proceeded to loosen up credit by lowering its discount rate, bellwether of all British sterling-area money rates, from...
...eyed wonder as M. Maurice Goudeket explained that his wife, the great Colette, had personally picked her to play the lead in a Broadway play. A few weeks later, after an expensive exchange of cablegrams and consultations with Broadway Producer Gilbert Miller, Author Loos herself flew to London to confirm Colette's judgment. "I tried to explain to all of them that I wasn't ready to do a lead," said Audrey in New York last week, "but they didn't agree, and I certainly wasn't going to argue with them...
Victory for Adenauer would be great news for the West. It would: 1) confirm Germany's decision to rearm on the side of the West; 2) strengthen Germany's slow experiment in democracy by continuing strong, also stable government. It would bolster the faltering cause of European Union, in which Konrad Adenauer devoutedly believes...
When the word got to Washington, McCarthy "demanded" that Banker Eisenhower confirm or deny the Sun story, and generally acted as though he thought Editor Greenspun (one of his bitterest.critics) had made it all up. Arthur Eisenhower obliged. Interviewed at Phoenix on his way home, he said: "Sure I called him the most dangerous menace to America, but I don't understand why the remark caused excitement." Back home in Kansas City, he was asked if his statement reflected the viewpoint of the President. "That's the hell of it," he said unhappily. "People misinterpret things. I want...