Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their cohabitation; 4) the length of time they live together (varying in practice from one to seven years); 5) their public and social conduct as man and wife. Children by such a union, the existence of a settled home, and the community's recognition, all tend strongly to confirm the relationship as bona-fide...
...relations with Marcus & Co. and is at present engaged in preparing drawings for another Fifth Avenue establishment accents the fact that the Marcus & Co. "incident" is isolated rather than typical. Nevertheless, in an age when many marriages are at tempted between Art & Business*, such an incident seemed likely to confirm the artist in his suspicion that Business is without honor at the moment when Business was beginning to appreciate the fine shades of honor which motivate such an artist as Artist Kent...
...special session of the Senate called by President Hoover to confirm his Cabinet appointments was the shortest on record. It lasted only an hour and a half. During that time the nominations of eight members of the new Cabinet were confirmed. The names of the two holdover officers-Andrew William Mellon and James John Davis-had not been submitted by President Hoover. These omissions, and an ancient rancor, caused the Senate to adopt a resolution by Tennessee's loquacious McKellar directing the Judiciary Committee to report: 1) whether any Cabinet member may legally hold office after the expiration...
University authorities have refused to confirm or deny rumors current yesterday that H. L. Shattuck '01 would succeed C. F. Adams '88 as treasurer of the University. No official announcement of Mr. Adams's resignation or of the naming of his successor will be made until after Tuesday when the Senate will take action on the appointments of Mr. Hoover...
...proclaim and declare that an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene at the Capitol, in the city of Washington, on the fourth day of March next, at 12 o'clock noon. . . ." With this last Presidential proclamation, Calvin Coolidge summoned the Senate to confirm his successor's Cabinet and other appointments. ¶To the Senate for confirmation as U. S. Radio Commissioners President Coolidge sent the names of Arthur Batcheller of Massachusetts, Cyril N. Jansky Jr. of Minnesota; for associate justices on the U. S. Customs Court of Appeals. Finis James Garrett of Tennessee...