Word: confirmers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newspaper accounts confirm Princess Alice's impression that it was she, not her mother, who christened the Meteor. In dark blue velvet, large picture hat, sable boa and muff, with a black ribbon inscribed "Yacht Meteor" in gold on her left sleeve, she firmly seized a bottle of White Seal champagne (in silver net to catch glass splinters), swatted it cleanly against the ship's side and with a little silver hatchet chopped, in one chop, the heading cord. Prince Henry cabled to his imperial brother: "The yacht christened by the hand of Miss Roosevelt just launched...
...Will the House allow me," handsomely replied Sir Austen, "to thank the right honorable gentleman for the very handsome way in which he has treated this incident, and to say I hope it will not weaken, but will confirm the friendly relations which should exist between members sitting on opposite sides of the House...
...stated that the results of the meeting were "practically nil." Reached at his office, Charles P. Curtis '85, a member of the Corporation, said that the subjects petitioned by the Council had not been brought up at all. Francis W. Hunnewell '02, secretary of the Corporation, declined either to confirm or to deny this statement...
...Sometimes he summons reporters to his office, gives them copies of a bulletin, elaborately invites further questions, rarely tells more than is in the written "handout." Some newshawks curse him for allegedly spoiling a Hearst scoop on Abby Rockefeller's engagement. When the Hearst man asked him to confirm it, Mr. Lee immediately gave it to all papers...
Doubting Pauls have been unable to comprehend that Re-Thinking Missions, published last winter by the Rockefeller-sponsored Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry, gave a true picture of Christianity's status in the Orient. To confirm that picture, the Inquiry last week supplied them with Volume V of its source books-a combined volume of facts on Baptist, Congregational, Dutch Reformed, Episcopalian, Methodist and Presbyterian missions in China...