Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Literary Digest last week published a supplement to its main poll on approval of the New Deal (TIME, Jan. 6), showing that of 21,600 clergymen, 70% were opposed to it. This result tended to confirm the verdict of many an oldtime politician that President Roosevelt, because he backed Repeal, tolerated two divorces in his family, goes fishing on Sunday and rarely mentions God in public, will lose considerable support from the Church next autumn...
...longer pertinent to dwell upon the necessity for trained men in public life. Dozens of experiences that each of us have every day not only confirm in our own minds such a necessity but also many times prove to be a source of embarrassment mingled with shame over the fact that we have been so long in coming to the obvious realization. Young college men who are interested in politics and government, particularly public administration, are today interested in two main problems: first, what definite opportunity is there for trained men in government service today and what possibilities are there...
...success of the London Economic Conference of 1933, left the New Deal as its fiscal tendencies became apparent. Harvard's Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague, monetary adviser to the Treasury, quit when dollar tinkering began. Special Assistant Earle Bailie had to retire because the Senate would not confirm a Wall Street man. Undersecretary of the Treasury Dean Gooderham Acheson, differing with the President on financial policies, departed without even a perfunctory expression of Presidential regret. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Thomas Hewes fell into disfavor with Secretary Morgenthau, was stripped of most of his duties, took the hint and resigned...
...united efforts were not successful in lifting his grades much above G. Then it was that I began asking him about the type of themes his instructor read aloud in class and about the latter's comments. What he told me and what our recent experiments have shown confirm my suspicious of long standing. This English A instructor admires what may be termed "smart writing...
...homely sound which drew first grins, then cheers. Two weeks ago the King, having forced erstwhile Dictator General George Kondylis to resign as Premier, was challenged. Newsorgans controlled by Panayoti Tsaldaris, whose henchmen hold a majority of seats in Parliament, demanded that Parliament be convened by the King to confirm or reject his restoration...