Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Owen Josephus Roberts found that Germany 1) did indeed war by sabotage on the U. S. and other neutrals; 2) caused the Black Tom and Kingsland disasters (killing three men and a child) ; and 3) by continuously presenting perjured testimony, through its Foreign Office officials tried to hide the proof of its guilt. Therefore, said he, Germany must pay some $50,000,000 in accrued damages and interest (principally to Lehigh Valley Railroad, which owned Black Tom, Canadian Car & Foundry Co., which owned the Kingsland plant, and Bethlehem Steel Corp., maker of some of the sabotaged shells...
...Century-Fox), another Buy-British reprint from the Scotland Yard files, involves three murders and the theft of the British budget from the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Not a patch on Scotland Yardman Ralph Richardson for verve and sass (see above), grey, efficient Cinemactor Gordon Harker is nevertheless painstaking proof that it takes all sorts of cinemen to man the Yard...
Your talk of bullet-proof glass, for instance, is just plain tommyrot. Even though British law has made the gangster's profession a precarious one in this country, still we do know the difference between bulletproof glass and unshatterable or safety glass, with which latter the Royal car and many others in Canada are equipped. Your insistence upon this entirely fictitious bullet-proof glass is one of the most odious insinuations you could suggest against a loyal people...
...prison farm at La Tuna, Tex., announced that he is against Alcatraz. "It is necessary to have a place like Alcatraz to break up a crowd that conspires to escape or kill or murder," he said. But he believed results equally good could be obtained in an escape-proof, walled farm, without quite such grim technique. "It is a great injustice to San Francisco," he said, "to have that place of horror on the doorstep of the city...
...Grand Council of the Falange Espanola Tradidonalista, the new Fascist substitute for Parliament. Raimundo Fernandez Cuesta, secretary general of Spain's only party, demanded "blind obedience" to Generalissimo Franco, ended by proposing an oath: "We proclaim our inflexible will to obey unconditionally the orders of our Caudillo. As proof of that sacred promise, let the Councillors of the Falange swear with me before God always to obey the Caudillo and those who receive from him the power of commandment." The Councillors swore...