Word: confirmed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate's Republican Policy Committee unlimbered a heavy-caliber political weapon last week. To clear the way for a Republican President next January, it announced that the Senate would confirm no more presidential appointments before the session's end. The decision affected some 1,000 civilian vacancies, 859 of them postmasterships. The only exceptions would be for the military and for Cabinet officers...
...revealing critical remark about Kafka was made by French Novelist Albert Camus: "It is the fate and perhaps the greatness of this work to offer us everything and to confirm nothing...
...clock he appeared at the State Department for a press conference-not on ECA but on Korea and Japan. The President had not yet announced Hoffman's appointment, although every newsman at the conference knew it was in the works. They tried to make Hoffman confirm it. He sat-a benign-faced man with bright blue eyes, protruding underlip and long nose-ducking an answer. The newsmen buzzed after him out the office door. Someone asked if he would accept the job if it were offered. Said Hoffman imperturbably: "The first thing I would do would be to phone...
Nevertheless, the Senate is expected to confirm him, so that headless CAB can get to work again. Last week the Senate confirmed Harold A. Jones, 50, Los Angeles lawyer and World War I Marine pilot, thus filling the other vacancy on the five-man board...
...Republic and other newspapers in Navajo territory found that many Navajos were faced with starvation this winter unless something were done for them. Writers for various U.S. magazines like Harper's found the same thing-as did TIME'S Beshoar when he again visited the reservation to confirm the facts for TIME'S Nov. 3 story...