Word: confirmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Steel's Carl Ilgenfritz to the chairmanship of the Munitions Board because Ilgenfritz intended to continue drawing his U.S. Steel salary. Under an 1870 law, it is illegal for any government contracts to a firm in which he has a financial interest. The Senate therefore refused to confirm Ilgenfritz...
...came to Berding's office to make the final check of an exclusive story, Berding gave the reporter information without making it general. He has gone on the theory that the hard-digging reporter was entitled to his beat. From now on, when a reporter asks questions that confirm a major story he already has, the entire press corps will be called in and given the story...
Swing to Bridges. In Washington, hardly anyone thought that Taft would oppose confirmation of Durkin, and no one thought that the Senate would refuse to confirm him.* The Ohio Senator's colleagues in Congress failed to provide any choral background for his solo. Vermont's Senator George D. Aiken, who will rank next to Chairman Taft on the Labor Committee, thought it was "wise to recognize organized labor in the Cabinet." Several Taft-minded Senators, e.g., Kansas' Andrew Schoeppel, swung behind New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, rather than Taft, for Majority Leader...
...Boston columnists said yesterday that the game had been scheduled, and indicated that University of Massachusetts officials had unofficially confirmed the reports. College officials would neither confirm nor deny the reports...
Until three years ago, when a team headed by Boston's Dr. John F. Enders reported that these test-tube cultures provided a test for the presence of polio and similar viruses, it used to take a monkey a month to confirm a single diagnosis of polio. That was impractical. Many physicians relied (and still do) on a microscopic examination of a droplet of fluid taken by puncture from the patient's spinal column. In normal, healthy fluid, there are few or no cells-not more than eight to the cubic millimeter. In victims of virus diseases like...