Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vote of 14-5, the committee decided that George was all right. Senator Taft and four other Republicans held out, but Administration aids expected the Senate to confirm George without much trouble. In the offing is the chairmanship of RFC-at least, George confided, Harry Truman had made a "thin hint" to that effect...
About the current rumors that Gray will be leaving Harvard at midyears, Coach Stahl was noncommittal. Since Gray is in the Navy, nobody on the athletic staff is in a position to confirm or deny that report, he said...
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., who would "neither confirm nor deny" reports that he was politics-bound, joined a new Manhattan law firm-Poletti, Diamond, Rabin, Freidin and Mackay...
...bill made its points firmly: 1) the President would appoint and Congress would confirm the UNO delegate (probably earnest, white-topped Edward R. Stettinius Jr., to whom the job has long been promised); 2) the delegate, with ambassadorial rank, would act only on presidential order, never on his own initiative; 3) the President would be empowered, through his delegate and without asking Congress, to send a limited number of U.S. troops anywhere...
Lest they be suspected of approving the Peróns of Latin America, the critical Senators joined in a unanimous vote to confirm Braden's appointment. But they had made known that freehanded, aggressive "intervention," even for Latin liberties, was not the policy of the U.S. Senate...