Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week before, that President Coolidge had accepted it, that the primary purpose of the impeachment proceedings had been accomplished. Then Senator Charles Curtis moved that the Senate adjourn as a court of impeachment until Dec. 13. Since Congress reconvenes on Dec. 6, the House will have a week to confirm the recommendation of its Managers to abandon the trial of Judge English...
...reasonable was difficult. President Samuel Matthews Vauclain of Baldwin Locomotive Works, perspicacious with his 70 years of activity, learned of this situation and shipped down $7,107,850 worth of engines and $1,500,000 in cash, taking in return notes which the Argentine Congress did not confirm. And for five years financiers have on occasion twitted Mr. Vauclain about those notes. Last week those notes were paid, with interest, promptly on the day of maturity...
...Jeremy, in turn, received a 'crown' from England which was but a ridiculous laced hat yet helped to confirm his sovereignty in Central America...
...Josef Pilsudski seized the Government (TIME, May 24). Hesitant, irresolute, he could not bring himself to accept the responsibility either of ruling Poland as a dictator or of heading the State as Premier. Instead he temporized, forced the Sejm to elect one Ignatz Moscicld President of Poland and to confirm the puppet Cabinet of Premier Bartel. Since then Marshal Pilsudski has snapped the whip over President and Premier from the post of Minister of War; and Polish politics have degenerated into bedlam. Last week the Deputies of the Sejm, knowing that Pilsudski with the army at his back could...
...admiration of all the women who saw him box. They heard with interest that he had been born in Greenwich Village. They asked him to confirm the rumors that he had taken a college course in anatomy to help him in his profession, that he liked to dance, that he read Voltaire, that he neither smoked, spat, nor swore. One newspaper declared that he was "a young philosopher." All his partisans said he was too nice. . . . Few of his opponents have thought so. Tunney hits hard; he is a sound boxer, does not lose his head in the ring...