Word: confirmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago King and Cabinet clashed again as Premier Nahas' majority Wafdists picked a successor for Ali Maher's vacated Senate seat. Farouk refused to confirm the Cabinet's selection and the thwarted Premier again backed down, agreed to nominate a candidate neutral in the controversy. Last week the bickering came to a head with both King and Cabinet in a bellicose mood. The Cabinet sent Farouk a flat demand that he sign a bill recently passed by Parliament allowing the Premier to distribute, without accounting for, some $195,000 in secret funds for suppression of foreign...
...Liberal Premier of Belgium since 1884. Brussels political experts figure he has a majority of 70 in the Chamber. In effect M. Janson simply reformed the Cabinet of nonparty Economist Professor Paul van Zeeland (TIME, Nov. 1), expected by many last week to return as Premier after the courts confirm a Parliamentary vote which recently cleared him of charges in connection with a scandal at the National Bank of Belgium (TiME, Sept. 20 et ante). In his program speech last week, Premier Janson promised to continue the van Zeeland policy of keeping down prices and therefore the cost of living...
Three whole days later Berlin correspondents still were unable to get any official German source to confirm that Dr. Schacht is no longer Minister of Economics. Apparently mystic Adolf Hitler wants to keep for Germany the talismanic kudos of the Schacht name in the world of international finance, while at the same time permitting General Göring to indulge in expenditures for rearmament on a scale Dr. Schacht has warned is beyond the practical limits of Germany's resources. From 1 p. m. until 6 p. m. one day last week General Göring conferred with...
...absolutely sure that a surge in the micropotential of rabbits and cats, as registered on the microvoltmetre, indicated ovulation simply because he could cut those creatures open and examine the state of their ovaries. But since he could not perform a major operation on a woman just to confirm the meaning of an electrical surge through her flesh, he had to wait until a lucky break provided him this year with an amiable woman who was scientifically-minded and going to have an abdominal operation anyway...
...sense" of that body. The President should appoint Justices of the Supreme Court only when the Senate could act on the nominations before the nominees began service. Said he: "It is manifest the Senate can't be a free agent to exercise responsibility under the Constitution to confirm Supreme Court nominees if the Senate can't act until after a nominee has put on his robes and served for many months as an integral part of the Court...