Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crudest sort.'' the other declaring that he was being "railroaded" without the customary chance to refute the Government's tax claims. Last week he purred contentedly: "The fact that the grand jury reached a sound conclusion, notwithstanding the unusual methods pursued in my case, is proof of the good sense and fairness of the American people...
...Securities Act. These amendments would abolish the liabilities of officers and directors for false statements made on information received from, accountants and other experts; would limit the liability of underwriters to their share of issues underwritten; would shorten the period in which suits might be brought; would require proof that misleading statements had actually led to losses by investors; would prevent blackmail and nuisance suits by requiring litigants to post bond and pay costs if they lost. This amounted to an indication on behalf of the President that business was to get reasonable consideration, not merely to be the butt...
...haired man raided a bank, wounded five people, got away with $17,299. Said the assistant cashier: 'It was Dillinger without any question." ¶In Mooresville, Ind. Dillinger's home town, two residents reported seeing Dillinger in a car. Federal agents blocked all roads, donned bullet proof vests, took machine guns, raided the Dillinger farm, found Father Dillinger mending a fence...
...sandals. His simplest method of holding tribal loyalties is to marry the sheik's daughter. He has taken to wife over 100 of them in the past ten years, divorced most of them (no disgrace in Arabia). Because he has given up camels for fast bullet-proof motor cars in conducting desert warfare, his favorite wives follow the flag in a close-shuttered regulation police van or pie wagon, safe from prying eyes. Ever since the War Ibn Saud has been fighting to extend his realm. By 1925 he had completed conquest of the Hejaz which contains the holy...
There is nothing that could, in any strict accuracy, be called an "Armament Ring" in Europe today. There is no perfectly homologous group of single-purposed individuals that sits down before a polished table in a sound-proof room and plots new holocausts in Europe. Search through the armament makers as you will, you will find neither a Machiavelli nor a Dr. Fu Manchu. But that's all you won't find...