Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loan, expected to total between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000, will be made for one year at 5%. secured by notes of Amtorg (the Soviet State trading corporation in the U. S.) and further "unconditionally guaranteed by the Soviet State Bank." This tended to confirm Wall Street's impression that the R. F. C. will soon be financing all sorts of U. S. exports to Russia. While this cotton deal was pending Comrade Litvinov dickered through the Legation of friendly Poland with Rumania, Estonia, Latvia, Finland and Turkey-all states bordering the Soviet Union on the West...
...Freudian" is far less used by bigwigs of the psychological sciences than by literary and dramatic critics to pigeonhole incestuous novels and plays. But the Oedipus Complex leaped from desuetude last week when the University of Wisconsin's Dr. Ross Stagner reported a survey which seemed factually to confirm its validity. Addressing the American Sociological Society in Chicago. Dr. Stagner said he had questioned a large group of boys & girls in their 'teens, found the girls invariably fonder of their fathers, the boys invariably fonder of their mothers. Dr. Stagner found that when children were reprimanded the Freudian...
...otherwise worked hard and well for his chief. But Secretary Newton was not a man of independent means and his job meant bread & butter to him. After the 1932 election, therefore, President Hoover had nominated him to be a Federal district judge. But a balky Senate had refused to confirm this or any other Hoover nomination...
...Noyes of the Washington Star. Governor General Robert Gore of Puerto Rico, who publishes three Florida newspapers. James Middleton Cox or Representative Chester Bolton of Ohio. John J. Raskob. Rarely had the principal in a major transaction effected such complete anonymity. Revelation was promised after the District Court should confirm the sale. Meanwhile some shrewd guessers eyed Eugene Meyer, onetime governor of the Federal Reserve Bank. Supposed motive: promotion of a Republican comeback...
...fact that President Roosevelt had not yet gotten around to filling three Republican directorships. The business before the board was the election of a chairman, a post vacant since March 4 when bald, bumbling Atlee Pomerene, Hoover appointee, was forced out by the Senate's refusal to confirm his nomination. Together went the Woodin, Couch and McCarthy heads. When they came apart Jesse Jones, Houston publisher, realtor, banker, lumberman and promoter, found himself unanimously elected R. F. C. chairman. Chairman Jones has been on the R. F. C. board since its inception (February 1932), has acted as chairman...