Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eastern Locarno game which is likely to be long. If Adolf Hitler can be induced to sign?and by signing the Eastern Locarno he would renounce Nazidom's most cherished dreams for expansion?so much the better for peace. The opening gambit last week faced the Hitler Government with proof that Nazi Germany has been diplomatically encircled. In blazoning this encirclement to the whole world Godfather Sir John acted as he did partly because Fathers Barthou and Litvinoff of the Eastern Locarno had warned him that, should he refuse to put pressure on Germany, they were ready to protect themselves...
Canny Dutchmen, the rioters began by looting sellers of building supplies, built high bullet-proof barricades. They screamed charges that the stinginess of Her Majesty's Government is an outrage and the recent cut of the dole to an average of $6 per unemployed family per week is a crime. A group of Communist Deputies rushed to the government offices shouting, "We demand to see the Minister of Interior...
Reason for this lavish gift, it is locally explained, is that Louis Philippe was grateful to Bishop Flaget for presenting the Havana purse of 14,000 francs. Most convincing proof of the gift is a bill introduced in Congress in 1824 and again in 1832 asking that Bishop Flaget be exempt from paying duties on "certain paintings and church furniture presented by the then Duke of Orleans, now King of the French, to the Bishop of Bairdstown...
...Merely Non-Plussed I. B. M. ADDS TO LINE "International Business Machine has announced the addition to its line of an automatic letter filing case, developed to meet the needs of public utility holding companies. This file, which will be known by the trade name 'Investigation Proof,' automatically picks out and destroys all letters from or to State Senators." Burlesquing the Watt Street Journal's "High Spots in the News" department, Bawl Street had items like: "Return to normalcy seen as banks are again robbed by outsiders"; "Investment trust loadings unchanged in May 19 week"; "Distillers...
...lovable men springs our essential trouble. Between them they divided America in such a way that the honest labor of man could never be fused with his inner spirit, and until such fusion comes we must await the years of our own majority. Nor is Mr. Brooks without proof. What have Longfellow, with his untried sentiments, Bryant with his manufactured moralities, Emerson with his solitary self reliance got to do with the heat and the sweat of life? They are as a barrel organ beside the still, sad music of humanity. Poe and Hawthorne, the two greatest artists who ever...