Word: confirming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Harding appointed Walter L. Cohen, a Negro Republican, controller of customs at New Orleans. He tried to do so while Congress was in session, but the Senate, heeding the cries of the two Louisiana Senators, Broussard and Ransdell, refused to confirm the appointment. This is the first interim appointment (that is, an appointment good till Congress reassembles) ever made by a President once that Congress refused definitely to confirm the nomination of the man in question...
...well known ability of the stock market to " discount" future conditions has led some business leaders to anticipate the Autumn situation this year with less complacency. Industrial news, containing as it did reports of price cuts in oil and weakness in cotton and sugar, tended in general to confirm such less optimistic opinion, although April pig production set another high record. The strong banking position, however, indicates that should present business activity fall off, no such tremendous speculative liquidation as that of 1920-21 will be witnessed, except possibly to a limited extent in real estate. The checkrein...
...confirm my worst suspicions that this place is nothing better than a hotbed of predigested propaganda, this afternoon I attended a lecture in Sever Hall. It was absolutely inconceivable! Here was a room packed to the sagging ceiling (in fact, I succeeded in getting a seat only in the confusion after an old lady had fainted and they had carried her out) and for an hour a hired European lecturer talked on "Esoteric Symbolism in the later Byzantine schools". This, while humanity hangs on the brink of utter chaos...
...know I think a man coming to Harvard with the preconceived belief firmly fixed that the college was secretly educating everyone to be a Shaker would see only the things which confirm him in his belief...
...principles, obtain unanimous consent to have them reprinted in the Record, in heavy type so that the words of wisdom may not be overlooked. More than this, Congressmen "extend" their remarks ad lib., and the printed speeches which have never been delivered are sent to their home constituents, to confirm the voters' faith that their Congressmen are still working for them...