Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lured Benny to the younger network (beginning Jan. 2) was the same bait that, two months ago, detached Amos 'n' Andy from NBC (TIME, Sept. 20). Reports in the trade said that CBS offered a sizable (but undisclosed) salary for Benny's services. CBS would only confirm that it had bought his program for "somewhat more than...
What's a Signal? The Dow theorists could not agree. Chicago's Justin Barbour, who interprets the Dow theory for the Chicago Journal of Commerce, said the break-through did confirm a bear market. But in Manhattan, Thomas W. Phelps, of Francis I. Du Pont & Co., another leading Dow exponent, thought otherwise. The industrials and rails, said Phelps, would have to break their lows of last February (when the industrials were at 164.07 and the rails at 47.48) before a positive bear "signal" would be given. The New York Herald Tribune's financial editor, C. Norman Stabler...
Last week the House of Commons took stock of the government's African policy. Before it lay a scathing report of an all-party Estimates Committee which had examined on the spot a $220 million plan for Nigerian development. The committee found (and the Commons debate tended to confirm): "[The plan] does not propound a complete strategy of development. It is merely an aggregate of proposals for spending the money. If the ten-year plan were carried out overnight . . . improvement . . . would be barely perceptible...
...them. But there was little levity or enthusiasm. Welcoming the guests, Pennsylvania's Senator Francis J. Myers mentioned the name of Harry Truman only once and parenthetically at that. Then he pursed his lips in a graveyard whistle: "Nobody is going to lie down and die just to confirm a report in the newspapers, and neither is the Democratic Party. Who says we're dead...
...Roosevelt had in forcing Henry Wallace on the 1940 convention. Twice, he called Douglas in Oregon. Douglas asked for 48 hours to make up his mind. He well knew that if he resigned from the Supreme Court, he could never expect to return. A Republican Senate was unlikely to confirm the nomination of a defeated Democrat...