Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among its 1,323,000 communicants the Protestant Episcopal Church counts many a wealthy man. But the Church is no more proof against financial troubles than any other. Successively its National Council has had to reduce the yearly budgets voted in 1931 from $4,225,000 to $2,898,000 to $2,716,855. Besides a deficit of $529,000 incurred last year, a 1934 deficit of $500,000 impends. If this is not made up the National Council may abandon missionary work in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Hawaii and Alaska where venerable Peter Trimble Rowe has been laboring...
...that does not complete the picture. The Comite des Forge and Schneider-Creusot were not at all unwilling to see Hitler gain ascendancy in Germany. Here the documentary proof is lacking, but the Inferential proof is close to inescapable. In 1933 Hitler sued a German journalist for having made the statement that Skoda (and, through Skoda, Schneider-Creusot) had contributed to his campaign expenses. When, however, he was challenged to make a direct denial that this was so, he stormed from the witness stand, cursed the opposing lawyer for a Jew, never specifically answered the question, and was subsequently fined...
...that civilization is doomed; and evidently he expects people to believe that civilization is doomed. But Mr. Holmes does not prove conclusively why one should believe it nor does he prove that be should know whereof be speaks. Perhaps he really does not know anything about the matter. But proof or no proof, Mr. Holmes is saying something, which, even if it lacks the backing of proof or fact certainly has the support that a new idea never has; for it is not a new idea. In his later years Goethe lamented the coming doom of civilization in the nineteenth...
...Here the proof of the international operations of armament makers is open is no question at all. In corroboration there is spread upon the records the testimony of Deputy Pierre Etienne Flandin (scarcely a flaming Bolshevist, for he was later Finance Minister under Tardieu) to the effect that he, an artillery of the French Second Army had been expressly forbidden to bombard Briey when the chance existed, and when a ten-mile penetration of the sector would have come close to spelling German ruin. And the statement of his colleague, Deputy Barthe, in the Chamber on January 24, 1919, lost...
...fields fell on Chicago's roofs and sidewalks. And the dust swept on, until its thick haze could be seen from the windows of the Department of Agriculture in Washington. It hung for five hours like a fog over Manhattan-the greatest dust storm in U. S. history, proof to the East of an unbelievably successful crop reduction in the Midwest. But the Administration was not grateful for this help from the Hand of God. No fear did it have of a real wheat shortage, for the U. S. consumes only 600,000,000 bu. of wheat a year...