Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coatroom talk is occasionally significant. Last week significance was attached to unofficial opinions that so far as the President's equanimity may be disturbed, it has been disturbed. Cause: the Senate's refusal to confirm his appointment of Cyrus E. Woods of Pennsylvania to the Interstate Commerce Commission (TIME, Jan. 31). It was the second rejection by the 69th Congress. Previous one: Wallace McCamant, "original Coolidge man of Oregon," to be Federal Circuit Judge. Judge McCamant had once said of Theodore Roosevelt: "Theodore Roosevelt was not a good American...
...coming in under kicks, often do not try to block punts, but with high, powerful knee action rough up the defending halfback". Much of Hubbard's evidence must be hearsay. When the players mentioned by him as disabled by Princeton tactics were interviewed they fall refused to deny or confirm the statements made...
Next day, the World asked that Senator Reed disprove any of its statements, "if he can." Unrebuffed, Senator Reed went to the White House and assured the President that the Senate would soon confirm Mr. Woods' appointment by a substantial majority. He counts on the aid of the regular Republicans, plus the Southern Democrats who have their eyes on two appointments for the Tariff and Federal Trade Commissions, which will probably go to Democrats. Political plums often make salve...
Your footnote definition of a "persuader" (TIME, Dec. 6, 1926) does not confirm my idea of the connotation of the colloquialism. My father is a Wisconsin-born farmer who has never been south of the latitude of Chicago. For 20 years he has used that term to mean a rope-made halter that tightened up on a horse when he offered any resistance to being led. The pressure of the rope around the nose "persuaded" the horse to follow the leader...
...Chiengmai stately priests flung garlands upon the baby elephant, poured lustral water on its quivering trunk and performed the complicated mystic rite of "Tarn Kwan." From Bangkok experts set out to confirm that the elephant was indeed a "true white" and therefore sacred. Siamese offered prayers of thanksgiving...