Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then Eisenhower got to thinking. If France proposed a conference it might seem another preliminary to a Four-Power session with the Russians (which the U.S. does not want until it sees proof by deeds of new Russian good intentions). Why shouldn't the U.S. seize the initiative for a three-power conference? This would not necessarily imply any forthcoming conference with Russia. It would imply what was true, to wit, that there are distressing evidences of diverging Big Three policies, e.g., the Churchill and Attlee speeches, which needed talking over...
Durable Cinemactress Joan Crawford, doing her first song & dance role in 13 years in MGM's Technicolored Torch Song, struck a barstool pose with her French poodle to give shapely proof that the famed Crawford legs are still worth the price of admission...
...protect himself from the viciousness of professional liars as they are presently used by committees. Certainly the Corporation should maintain the right to investigate all users of the Fifth Amendment, but by branding "misconduct" a professor's right to this elementary self-protection, it has put accusation before proof. The sentencing should come only after investigation, and the punishment of declaring a man guilty of misconduct should be only a possible result and not a cause of the fact-finding...
...This nation's greatest dangers are to be found within its borders, not without. The horrible proof of this is public enemy No. 1, Senator Joe McCarthy...
...that did not satisfy Wyatt. On March 14, in another libel-proof speech on the state Senate floor, he accused three professors of "Communistic, subversive activity." They were Morris E. Garnsey, an economics professor; John C. Livingston, an economics instructor; and Dr. Harl Douglass, director of the College of Education. Wyatt based his charge against Gurnsey on the fact that a student in Garnsey's class had told him Garnsey had said in private conversation, "we ought to change our form of government and try another." Each of the three denied the charge absolutely...