Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Petitions of nominees will be placed in all House dining halls, with 20 signatures needed to confirm nominations. Elections are slated for the first week in March...
...issue of atomic energy itself, Lilenthal's opposition to domestic military control is well-known, having been shown clearly in his famous report to the President last spring which was made the basis for the Baruch proposals. Therefore, refusal by the Senate to confirm him in his new office might well give the military another energy developments in this country. Although they lost when the McMahon Bill was passed last summer, although public opinion polls of the past year have demonstrated a steadily increasing majority of the American people in favor of civilian control, the military and their congressional supporters...
...Then he set out to confirm the tip. Nobody at the State Department would. Late in the afternoon, Reston got to Jimmy Byrnes himself by telephone, asked him point-blank if he was going to quit. Said Byrnes, sidestepping: "How many times do I have to deny this thing?" Reston kept after him: Did he deny the resignation or not? Byrnes didn't exactly deny it, but managed to sound...
...Times of London. Wrote he: "The BBC seems bent on turning the children into a new kind of drug addict. . . . The poor children grow more concerned from day to day about what Dick Barton . . . may do next than about their futures or the future of England. My neighbors confirm that when they turn [him] off . . . their children regard them as . . . tyrannic giants...
...comparison with the ancient Oriental's response to the challenge from his Roman masters. . . . Opening a simple and impressionable mind to the Gospels, he has divined the true nature of Jesus' mission. He has understood that this was a prophet who came into the world not to confirm the mighty in their seat but to exalt the meek and the humble. . . . The Syrian slave-immigrants who once brought Christianity into Roman Italy performed the miracle of establishing a new religion which was alive in the place of an old religion which was already dead. It is possible that...