Word: reaffirm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last June (TIME, June 25) with more than six years of a regular 14-year term to go. A lifelong banker from a banking family, Mills shares Martin's view that Federal Reserve policy should be independent and not dominated by the Treasury, a policy that Eccles helped reaffirm before he quit...
...head controls the tail." We hope that through all this canine metaphysics, Jordan is trying to say that athletics must be kept in their proper place as a small part of college education, and not a business or a prestige item. It would be nice, though, if he would reaffirm this clearly every time he speaks on the subject, to prevent people from getting the wrong idea. Football policy is a rather ethereal thing, and a good deal more depends on the attitude with which it is approached than with the official, formal setup for administering scholarships and admissions procedure...
...hereby reaffirm our conviction that Southern Baptists cannot enter into organic connection with the National Council of Churches, the World Council of Churches or any other unionizing organization which would compromise Baptist principles and doctrines as revealed in the inspired word of God . . ." Another resolution recommended "that Southern Baptists begin now to prepare ... to meet the challenge of the changing conditions in American Christianity...
...Warned against mixed marriages with Roman Catholics: ". . . We reaffirm both the sacredness of an individual's religious faith, in which the husband and wife must be equally free and that a fundamental tenet of our faith is violated if either the husband or wife is forced to sign away the religion of unborn children...
...Passed unanimously a resolution introduced by Connecticut's Democratic Senator Brien McMahon to reaffirm "the historic and abiding friendship of the American people for all other peoples, including the peoples of the Soviet Union . . . The American people desire neither war with the Soviet Union nor the terrible consequences of such a war, and welcome all honorable efforts to compose the differences between them and the Soviet Government...