Word: proof
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only is that true, but by publishing it, it unconsciously, perhaps, did a very great service for West Virginians and their state. It has brought to the defense not only them, but their friends scattered throughout the United States, and it is most gratifying to see proof that friends and defenders of the "truth about West Virginia" are widely scattered and farflung. We are hearing from them from unsuspected locations...
...contrary to the wishes of the cabinet members who had seen Haines at work; it was in all probability decidedly against the desires of the president himself. It means that the administration has placed itself partially under the control of a not too savoury organization. It is proof positive that a partisan organization with sufficient vote-getting power can bully the American government into submission...
Eulenburg the Proof. Is Biographer Ludwig a shrewd Clarence Darrow, speciously pleading that the culprit's inferiority complex drove him to War Lordhood? To prove beyond a doubt the tragic duality of the Kaiser's personality, Herr Ludwig presents as secondary only to the Emperor in interpretive importance, his bosom friend for 30 years, Count (later Prince) Philip zu Eulenburg-Hertfield...
...Leon Trotzky. All knew that M. Trotzky had been silent perforce, following the crushing of his section of the Communist party by Dictator Josef Stalin (TIME, Oct. 25). When Comrade Trotzky slipped upon the stage last week, pale, wiry, magnetic, there was stamping, applause and cheers for 15 minutes-proof enough that Leon Trotzky is still great, though subservient to Dictator Stalin...
Commander de Pinedo's itinerary directed him north from Rio de Janiero to Jamaica, Cuba, New Orleans, St. Louis, Chicago, New York. His was a "four-continent" flight, planned to give "new proof of virile national power." He flew with two comrades. His seaplane, the Santa Maria, was built at Milan, with two 550-h.p. Isotta-Fraschini motors...