Word: confirmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...founders of this nation entrusted the lawmaking power to the Congress alone in both good and bad times. It would do no good to recall the historical events, the fears of power, and the hopes for freedom that lay behind their choice. Such a review would but confirm our holding that this seizure order cannot stand...
They barrelhoused 'em through. Of the 519 contested delegates, the committee seated only 30 Ikemen, gave the rest to Taft. That afternoon, the pro-Taft Credentials Committee went further, giving 21 more seats to Taft. Then the convention voted 762-222 to confirm the Credentials Committee's seating. Mrs. Stearns and the other 509 contested Taft delegates were permitted to vote to seat themselves; an equal number of contested Ike delegates were not allowed to vote...
This vote might be very close indeed. The contested delegations will be voted on in alphabetical order. Assuming that the Credentials Committee has seated Taft delegates from Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, the latter two, with a total of 43 votes, can cast them to confirm the seating of the Taftmen from Louisiana. Then Louisiana (with 15) and Texas can help to vote in the Taft delegations from Mississippi. But when it comes to Texas, the vote may be much tighter for two reasons: i) the Taft machine's tactics in Texas were so flagrantly unfair that some independent Taftmen...
...Energy Commission, able administrator and pioneer in the gigantic task of releasing and using atomic energy, recipient of countless honors for service to the nation in behalf of freedom, religion, agriculture, and security, you have used your genius since your graduation from a Methodist college to advance the ideals, confirm the hopes and improve the lot of your fellow...
...casts a shadow of the Friar's Heel on the great altar. Astronomer Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer has calculated that on Midsummer Day, 1680 B.C., the sun rose directly over the special marking notch that can still be seen on the Heel. Libby's measurements tend to confirm Sir Joseph's guess: that Stonehenge was built about 3,800 years...