Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Students are drinking more beer and less hard liquor, according to George O'Brien, firewater dispenser at the Harvard Provision Company, who said that the trend had been apparent for the last few years, and was intensified by the war. Alcoholic dispensaries around the Square confirm O'Brien's statement almost without exception...
Admiral King's account seemed to confirm the impression that the Navy had underestimated the requirements of the Solomons campaign (TIME, Oct. 26), and that in this instance the U.S. command's insight into Japanese thinking and strategy had been none too keen. But his recital took nothing from the luster of the Navy-Marine-Army team's recent successes in clearing the Solomons waters of Jap ships and extending the land forces' hold on Guadalcanal...
...case was reopened and the Board of Immigration Appeals cleared him this time. Bridges went ahead with his work and the job his longshoremen did in expediting Pacific shipping was praised by admirals, shipbuilders, and the O.W.I. Attorney-General Biddle's decree, which had been expected to confirm the Board's decision as precedent indicated, suddenly reversed the situation, and Bridges, as of today, is deportable...
Global Secret? This apparently belated arrival at vital decisions looked bad for General George Catlett Marshall, the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, and others in the U.S. high command. In fact, such delay seemed to confirm what many responsible men, at the key controls of the U.S. arsenal, had been saying: that the military, up to last week, had simply lacked any real strategy, any real grasp of the global war, any real plan for winning...
...keep Edouard Herriot interned at his estate near Lyon. To Lyon, which Edouard Herriot had served 36 years as Mayor, the police looked like a guard of honor. When Berlin reported later that M. Herriot had been sent to a concentration camp at Vals-les-Bains, Vichy did not confirm it. Frenchmen hoped it was not true, felt that Vichy would not dare...