Word: confirms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Confirm Jesse Jones as Secretary of Commerce...
Germany obviously could not afford to antagonize Russia and thus confirm rather than confine the war's second front. Such an alienation would almost certainly bring Turkey into the fight. But it was equally clear that Russia did not dare fight Germany. It was reported: 1) that Adolf Hitler. had offered Joseph Stalin all of Finland and more of Rumania in exchange for a free hand against Greece and Turkey; 2) that he had offered Boris more of the Dobruja in return for permitting German troops the use of Bulgaria as a corridor to the eastern Mediterranean...
...accuracy of the Gallup poll can be checked periodically by the results of elections. The poll conducted by Defense cannot be so easily confirmed and is therefore subject to attack. Any poll which did not cover every Harvard student would be challenged by somebody. It is to be doubted that the Crimson would accept any result which did not conform to its impression of the facts. If the Crimson is sincere, if you are not opposing just for the sake of opposition, there is an easy way to find out if our poll is accurate. That is to conduct...
...like Cologne, submarine-building and repair plants. But the harried British grew restive. U. S. correspondents grew cantankerous. It was absurd, they said, for the British censorship to try to hide the names of cities newly blasted by the Luftwafle, leaving citizens dependent upon German communiqués to confirm what their own eyes or common gossip knew quite well. Contributing to a concerted outburst of U. S. sarcasm, the Chicago Daily News correspondent, Robert J. Casey, wrote...
...spun out, the testimony seemed confirm the frequent assertion that Communist zealots will use any means to achieve their desired ends. The court heard that Elvira Copelo had been the mistress of one of Prestes' closest comrades. After the latter went to jail in 1938, the girl often visited him, took messages to Communists outside. The Brazilian police found her a handy, unconscious guide to the hideaways of agitators. One day six Brazilians went to the house of Elvira Copelo, were asked in for coffee. When Elvira Copelo at length rose to clear away the coffee cups...