Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general unintelligence. That an issue could be raised over such a question is an indication that legislation in America is in a pitifully decadent state. In the first place, the proposal of a bill denying suffrage to a group large enough to be termed a political party is proof that the state legislators are not even slightly acquainted with either the state or federal constitutions. On the other hand, opposition to the bill assumes the prerogative of a superior court, judging what a state legislature...
...Miscellanies" for the past few months knows that such things and conditions don't actually exist. They know that although you pretend to be impartial you are really being governed by a moneyed class of pseudo-Fascists. Harknesses and Hearstlings, I'll mention no specific proof of this lousy editorial policy, it's spread throughout your entire publication-from cover to cover...
Several months ago John Strachey, brilliant English author and lecturer, said that he saw evidences of Fascism in this country, including a tendency to limit free speech. He now can shout from the housetops that he has proof, for he himself is to be deported. Although the immigration authorities saw no reason to exclude him in December, the official charge suddenly brought against him is that he is a Communist and that he made an "illegal entry...
...type of Frenchman not yet extinct nor likely to be extinct for centuries." So does Historian Francis Hackett introduce his latest hero, Francis I. Author Hackett's 448-page tome is compendious and scholarly but he does not believe that "history should be blonde-proof"; not simply dignified names and dates but Francis' blondes and brunettes figure largely in this narrative...
...read the case, if there is a bona fide surplus, there is an implied right to sell the surplus. I get the idea from the proof . . . that the [TVA] directors have not arranged to dispose of any surplus of that kind but have treated all power as surplus either to show by example how cheap power can be made by the Government or in connection with its experiments for other purposes in the Valley...