Word: confirming
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, Emeritus, and chairman of the committee to choose a successor to President Wilbur K. Jordan, declined last night to comment on the report of Mrs. Bunting's selection. "I have no comment--either to confirm or deny," Schlesinger said...
...week's end Washington Democrat Warren Magnuson, commerce committee chairman, announced that he hoped his committee would take action on the confirmation of Lewis Strauss this week. At that point, 111 days had passed since President Eisenhower had sent Strauss's nomination to the Senate-two days more than the total time it had taken the Senate to confirm all 13 of Lewis Strauss's predecessors as Secretary of Commerce...
...suspicion is growing that this Crimson team is (or has become) quite a formidable outfit--much more so than its 3-4 record in Eastern League play would seem to indicate. Wins over Dartmouth, and over Yale on Saturday, would do much to confirm this suspicion...
...Oregon's senior Senator, Wayne Lyman Morse, reached the full stature of a demagogue in his campaign to prevent Clare Boothe Luce from serving as Ambassador of the United States to Brazil. In subverting the will of the President and 79 colleagues in the Senate who voted to confirm the nomination, Senator Morse won what may seem to him a victory over his chosen enemy, President Eisenhower. But many of his constituents are ashamed...
...bottle. For the guidance of general practitioners, Dr. O'Hollaren in Medical Times charts a timetable of symptoms drawn from 147 male patients who began drinking at ages 18 to 19, and eventually wound up in his Shadel Hospital. Dr. O'Hollaren's statistics confirm his theory that it usually takes about 18 years to become a confirmed alcoholic. The journey's main stages...