Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter by Mrs. F. S. Elmore helps confirm my opinion that Woman Suffrage is the greatest mistake this country ever made...
Each bureau chief and stringer went about getting the answers in his own way. Being perceptive journalists who live and work in their communities, they could be expected to know them well. To confirm their knowledge, however, and to get the additional facts, they had days of pavement-pounding and questioning to do. Beyond talking to people themselves they went straight to those people who spend most of their time talking to others: ministers, personnel managers, employment agency heads, political ward heelers who punch doorbells the year round, salesmen, bartenders, traffic cops, waitresses, cab drivers, barbers, etc. One correspondent...
Finally the whole business was settled in secret meeting by the leaders of the two parties. The deal was that the new Congress would meet this week and confirm Dr. Enrique Hertzog, 49, as successor to the late, lynched Dictator-President Gualberto Villarroel. Hertzog had beat Luis Fernando Guachalla by only 289 votes in the January elections. In return for the settlement made with Guachalla and followers all challenged Guachalla congressmen were to be seated, thus assuring the Guachallistas of at least a fair chance of controlling the new Parliament. Hertzog promised to invite his friend and rival to join...
...chairman of the investigating committee, set a deadline on new witnesses for this midweek. The outcome of the Lilienthal nomination would be decided on the floor of the Senate by Republicans who would follow either Bob Taft or Arthur Vandenberg. President Truman was confident that they would vote to confirm. Lilienthal supporters thought that, if they had Vandenberg's open support, they would win by a dozen votes...
...Taft rested the outcome. Taft's word would solidify G.O.P. opposition or break it. He could cast his one vote and let it go at that; or he could demand a party vote. In that case, said one Republican Senator who privately admitted that he would vote to confirm, "a lot of us who would be independent might be obliged to vote with the leadership. If it doesn't become an out-and-out party test I think Lilienthal will get through...