Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prohibitions on foreign newspapers are not only a sign of spiritual oppression in Germany; to the outer world they are proof of its rulers' lack of confidence and of their incapacity. Too many people detest the actions of the present German Government; too many agencies are working and will continue to work to spread the truth about it, for the prohibition of this paper or that to do any injury except to the German Government itself. No one will fail to understand...
...would be very dull to insist on further proof of the patent greatness of Bernard Shaw. Almost alone of our contemporaries, he has had a divine consistency. One may, like Mr. Chesterton, disapprove of his principles, but he cannot trap Mr. Shaw into applying those principles falsely. A brave regularity in an unpopular position is always an admirable thing, but Mr. Shaw has made it inspiring and pleasant also. He may be, as Lenin said "a good man fallen among Fabians," but he is certainly not as Mr. McCabe once charged so ineptly "quite as entertainer." For to entertain merely...
...grounds that, by banning Negroes from the Jackson County jury roll, the State of Alabama had denied the defendants their constitutional rights at the original trial. Attorney General Thomas E. Knight, whose father wrote the Alabama Supreme Court decision sustaining the prior verdict, put the burden of proof on the defense. What Counsel Leibowitz had to prove, every Southerner knows to be true: Negroes simply are not allowed on juries in Alabama. After two days of bickering, Judge James E. Horton, a Lincolnesque figure in the Circuit Court for 25 years, suddenly ruled: "The Court has decided not to hear...
...Madrid last week Deputy Jiminez Asua made formal request to the Supreme Court to reopen the famed de Arrizola case of 1901 on the basis of new evidence in behalf of the plaintiff and proof of forgery presented by the defendant. Alfonso XIII. The move called world attention to a cause célèbre of 20 years ago, to ex-King Alfonso mouse-quiet in Fontainbleau and to the state of the Spanish Republic...
Council of nine. Proof against embryo dictators, this constitution leaked no power. Only leaks were heavy graft and heavy taxation of private business. The taxes hit Montevideo, Uruguay's only sizeable city and one-quarter of its population. The graft kept the Colorado Party fat. The Colorados pushed through graft-rich social reforms: old age pensions, universal suffrage, government monopolies of industry. Well satisfied were Uruguay's rural million and a half who raise sheep and cattle on its rolling pastures, doze under the trees in front of white plaster estancias...