Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cumberland River in Kentucky. And so it was, in view of his Insull connection and of the Insull part in a political deal which the Senate has condemned, that many a Senator was grumbling about Secretary West's appointment, which President Coolidge last week asked the Senate to confirm. Honest man though Secretary West may be, his past affiliations and investments could not have been more provoking to Senatorial sensibilities. In an atmosphere still surcharged with the Interior Department (oil) scandals of the Harding era and lately recharged by outcries against the so-called Power Trust, it looked very...
Lady Anne is convalescing from pneumonia. Reports of her illness and recovery are known to have been cabled in code to Edward of Wales throughout the course of his Afric Good Will Tour (TIME, Sept. 17 et seq.). Naturally the Marquis Douro continued, last week, his refusal either to confirm or to deny. But the fact of H. R. H.'s solicitude for Lady Anne was not disputed...
...Chicagoans, most excursionists to their World's Fair, recall with mingled emotions the turreted and crenellated brownstone "castle" abutting on lower Lake Shore Drive. The two acres of pleasaunce surrounding it confirm the impression of burlesque medievalism, of an architect strong in his delusion that a parapet here, a battlement there, comprise the ancient dignity of Kenilworth, Warwick, Elsinore, Tintagel...
...innocent men and women who have been convicted after a fair trial. If the governor and his commission confined themselves to inquiring of the jurors whether they and the judge gave Sacco and Vanzetti a fair trial, it would seem that the executive power was used merely to confirm the judicial determination of the question before the court, and not exercised independently in the manner contemplated by our frame of government with its separation of powers. Sincerely yours, Edward Dumbauld...
...warmest ambition is to return to a Federal judgeship in California. If Nominee Hoover is elected, she may get the appointment. That the Senate would confirm her is less certain, in fact most doubtful. In her pursuit and presentation of "the moral issue," she has been as hard on Congressmen as on the rest. Her lack of sympathy for the politics of Prohibition embarrassed the G. O. P. in the 1924 campaign. Now she is "the personification of Prohibition." Few Senators are sufficiently "noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose" to approve putting Mrs. Willebrandt on a bench...