Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yard Police is an organization intricate, smooth-running, and effective considering the immense field which it covers. The intense loyalty of Mr. Apted's subordinates is proof of his qualities as a leader...
Said Mr. Beck: "In his Farewell Address, George Washington solemnly warned his and all succeeding generations of Americans that the Constitution could be more easily 'undermined' than 'directly overthrown.' Today time gives that prediction proof, and the most effective method of undermining the Constitution is by the doctrine that the Federal Government can usurp the police powers of the states by the simple method of licensing...
...conservative, well-to-do Dutch family. His father became pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn Heights, was notorious for his Southern sympathies before the Civil War. Once during that War a mob surrounded the van Dyke home, demanded that the pastor display the U. S. flag as proof of his loyalty, was dispersed by elders of the church. Mentioning such conflicts with obvious distaste, Tertius van Dyke concentrates on Henry van Dyke's idyllic boyhood, his carefree college years in Princeton, his travels in Europe, pictures him as the frail, pugnacious son of adoring parents...
While there is no proof involving any one individual, seats from Section 31, the location of squad applications, are selling for high prices in Cambridge streets. Two excellent seats were sold for $27.50 just outside the H.A.A. offices...
...President Roosevelt as a practical farmer," began a dispatch to the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune last week, "has given concrete proof that agriculture can sustain itself and even operate at a profit without the aid of his New Deal...