Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More than reiterative, however, these exercises must be. When men from the Universities meet with men from the industries to confirm, each with the blessing of that section of the American people which he represents, this experiment in graduate education, the Harvard School of Business Administration, no one can discover mere redundance in the addresses...
...deliberate attempt was made to kill him. The details of the crash, the secrecy in which it was kept for three days, the elaborate precautions in bringing Mr. Ford home from the hospital (two ambulances, two stretchers), the heavily increased guard about the Ford home?all tend to confirm the plot theory, which Mr. Ford is said to have dropped at the end of the week. Extensive researches by the police and by private detectives have not yet revealed either the Studebaker or its two occupants, even though it is hinted that they are known to Mr. Ford's detectives...
...hostility. When the long session adjourned, the President gave him a recess appointment. In the short session the President repeated this performance and last week presented Mr. Tilson with a second recess appointment. Senators were vexed. Said Senator Harris of Georgia: "If he [the President] can withdraw appointments from confirmation and make recess appointments without limit, he can virtually deprive the Senate of its right to confirm or reject. It seems that an evasion of the Constitution is tantamount to an infraction...
...Ezra Brainerd Jr., onetime Vermont boy who has made good in Muskogee, Okla., as a lawyer and banker, was nominated by President Coolidge for the Interstate Commerce Commission. The "Senate had previously refused to confirm Cyrus E. Woods of Pennsylvania, the President's original choice for this post...
Authorities at University Hall yesterday declined either to confirm or deny the rumor that classes and lectures may be suspended for a period of three or four weeks before mid-year and final examinations...