Word: confirmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Technically, Eisenhower will not become the President-elect until the Electoral College meets in state capitals on Dec. 15 to confirm the voters' choice.* If a President-elect dies after the Electoral College meets, but before his inaugural day, the Vice President-elect succeeds him. But what would happen if Eisenhower should die before the Electoral College meets...
Crocker refused to confirm Watson's statement that the University had asked him to withdraw the film because it would be unfair competition with student groups who had previously scheduled its showing. He agreed, however, that "the University had nothing to do with the censorship of the film...
...press greeted the 1947 Arboretum expedition with a flood of publicity and two different writers asked Merrill to "confirm" the following story: A Harvard-trained botanist in the Air Force was flying over the hump during the war when was forced to bail out over China. He landed unconscious, and when he recovered he found he was lying under a Metasequoia--"in other words his training at Harvard was so good that he knew all about the tree before botanists even knew the species," Merrill chuckled yesterday...
...close, so often, that the weakling Fourth Republic has learned to live with it. But, as events turned, it was the waiting R.P.F., the biggest single voting bloc in the Assembly, that showed the first signs of crumbling. Last March, 27 of its 118 Deputies flouted party discipline to confirm commonsensible Antoine Pinay as Premier (TIME, March 17). A month later, in another test of strength, 34 Gaullists voted for Pinay's "save-the-franc" budget, and another 77 Gaullists, by abstaining on the vote, helped keep Pinay's right-of-center government in office. Last week...
Your June 9 excerpts from reviews of Whittaker Chambers' Witness largely confirm his thesis that the liberalism of our intellectuals is as atheist as Marxism...