Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reserve Act of 1934 (continuing the $2,000,000.000 Stabilization Fund and the power of the President to fix the gold content of the dollar anywhere between 50% and 60% of its old weight); sent it to the House. ¶ Suspended its rules by unanimous consent in order to confirm without referring to committee the nomination of James Aloysius Farley as Postmaster General (only member of the Cabinet whose term of office automatically ends with that of the President); confirmed the nomination of Charles Edison as Assistant Secretary of the Navy. The House: ¶ Passed the bill extending the Gold...
...appears to be no legal provision for it ever to meet again; and 2) both Edward VIII and George VI are today King, according to this bill. By another technicality Edward VIII in the Union of South Africa will be King until its Parliament meets next Jan. 8 to confirm His Majesty's abdication in that Dominion...
Issuing a challenge to Nominee Roosevelt to confirm or deny his son James's intimation last fortnight that he intended to revive NRA, Nominee Landon rolled on to California. Detraining at Pasadena with Governor Frank Merriam, who had boarded his train earlier, he was met by a cheering crowd, bundled into an automobile to ride to Los Angeles. Shocking was his reception by that pro-Roosevelt city. On the outskirts a group of WPA workers leaned on their shovels, booed lustily as he passed. As his car continued down crowded Broadway the boos swelled into a great, derisive roar...
That the politics in this bit of Rooseveltian history were not wholly on the Republican side became evident later in the week when none other than Press-agent Charles Michelson of the Democratic National Committee released extracts from the purported contract to confirm Son Elliott's version of its terms...
Nucleus of the Kreuger enterprises, the originally honest construction business of Kreuger & Toll had become by 1932 nothing but a holding company for International Match and Swedish Match and a catch-all for Kreuger's credit deals. The report of the Swedish investigating committee seemed to confirm popular belief that Kreuger & Toll was hollow right down to the ground, that the Kreuger & Toll debentures sold by Ivar Kreuger in Europe and the U. S. in 1929 were about as worthless as any Kreuger securities except those that Kreuger had forged by hand...