Word: confirming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stand of Representative Kennedy. As the young liberal spokesman in the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Kennedy has attempted to alter over-cautions policies in that oligarchical organization. Slated for February are the Memorial Committee's meeting and executive gatherings of the Harvard Clubs and the Alumni both able to confirm a decision...
...bargain price of about $3,000,000. With fashion shows, free nylons, plushy bars and season tickets, he boosted attendance to a major-league peak of nearly 2,300,000 in 1946. MacPhail said he sold out for $2,000,000 (his ex-partners would neither confirm nor deny it), which would leave him a net profit for the three years of at least...
...trading passed a million shares in two sessions v. only one million-share session in September. Moreover, prices edged up in all of the sessions, boosting the Dow-Jones industrial average up 3.59 for the week to 179.44. The week's activity was still too mild to confirm any trend. But traders were more cheerful than they had been in weeks...
...Under Secretary of the Navy in January 1946, he got a rude shock. Senators, noting that the Navy buys great quantities of oil, were leary of Pauley's behind-the-scenes activities in the great tidelands oil controversy and let it be known that they would refuse to confirm him. After six weeks of stormy hearings, Harry Truman withdrew the nomination...
...same time, reported the Paris edition of the Herald Tribune rather ominously, six crude, homemade bombs were found in Paris, their chief ingredients coming from a brand of French fire extinguisher called "Knock-out." Paris authorities refused to confirm the bomb story, but Britain took it seriously. A feeling of anger swept the country like the one over the recent hanging of two British sergeants in Palestine. London announced that Britain's air defenses had been alerted...