Word: rubber-stamps
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...Party was about to rubber-stamp Dictator-General Plutarco Elias Calles' choice of a new henchman to be shoved by the Party steamroller into the presidency of Mexico next July, but first the rubber stamp meeting was permitted to be roused to enthusiasm by Tabasco...
...final rubber-stamp of the week, the Convention nominated for President by acclamation a pure-blooded Tarascan Indian,* General Lazaro Cardenas, the fierce, secretive go-getter who hunted Bandit Pancho Villa. General Cardenas' taciturnity is a Mexican byword. Since last spring, when Dictator Calles indicated that he would pick Cardenas (TIME, April 3), the general has been studiously "doing nothing," having resigned as Minister of War to comply with the Mexican law that no official can be a presidential candidate. Last week Candidate Cardenas not only did nothing but, anxious above all to retain his reputation as a loyal...
...Alderman Dorsey Crowe, by a $500 cash check among Zuta's cancelled vouchers, endorsed with a rubber-stamp "Crowe & Kolb," dissolved firm in which he had been partner. Alderman Crowe last week denied acquaintance with Gangster Zuta...
When Lincoln was President and Walt was a rubber-stamp clerk in the Indian Office, Lincoln had already read Whitman's "Leaves of Grass," and expressed pleasure in them, although chastening his praise with regret at veiled allusions of the lines. Later Whitman was pointed out to Lincoln, who said: "Well, he looks like a man." These are practically all the ties with Whitman from the Lincoln side...