Word: confirmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What Right Have I?" A few hours later, a train arrived from Philadelphia bearing the new Attorney General-designate, James Patrick McGranery,*minus an asbestos suit. Fires were immediately lighted under him. Some Congressmen said they would try to hold up his confirmation as Attorney General until they had questioned him thoroughly in his role in the Amerasia case (see box). From another quarter came an even sharper attack ; Philadelphia District Attorney Richardson Dilworth, a fellow Philadelphia Democrat, predicted: "The regime of McGranery will be marked by incompetence, bias, favoritism and ward politics at its worst." McGranery shrugged...
...Although Truman subsequently gave him an interim appointment, a Senate subcommittee, mulling over Philip Jessup's part in Administration foreign policy, refused to confirm...
...short, the testimony, while it failed to support the charges of Budenz and McCarthy, did confirm that Vincent had been one of the chief architects of a policy that led to a triumph for Communism and a disaster...
...seemed clear that the Senate would not confirm an ambassador to the Vatican this year. Less clear was Truman's motive in persisting with what seemed to be a hopeless and politically unprofitable fight...
...routine day's work, after which he spent a second night finishing the reconstruction of Emily Kaye. The resulting "masterpiece" helped to send her murderer to the gallows-where Sir Bernard, quiet and efficient as ever, was on hand to perform the official post-mortem and confirm that death had resulted from dislocation of the murderer's spine "between the fourth and fifth cervical vertebrae...