Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oddest aspects of the Provoo case is that in 1946, after he was liberated, the U.S. Army investigated him for eight months, found no proof that he had collaborated with the enemy, and discharged him honorably. After six weeks, he re-enlisted for a three-year hitch. In 1949, he was indicted. Provoo's defense will be chiefly that he was "driven to irrationality" by imprisonment, and that he acted under duress...
Statistical proof of the women's vote is impossible because voting records are not filed by sex and there are no "women's precincts." But in traditionally pro-labor districts of Indiana, for example, election officials opened voting machines at noon "for repairs," found Ike leading after a heavy morning's vote by women. In Pawtucket, R.I., a Democratic poll-watcher cast his eye over long lines of women waiting to vote on election morning and commented: "Republican women always come out early. The only thing is that this time there are twice as many Republican women...
...notably in the Defense Production Act of 1951. For example, it restricted importation of various cheeses from European nations at a time when the U.S. cheese industry was selling more cheese to the other nations of the world than the U.S. was importing. This, to the Board, was ample proof the American cheese industry could compete without protective duties or quotas...
...would like to think his latest release is the start of a new trend. Mr. Thorpe could do, I'm sure, a magnificent job on Mark of Zorro or The Corsican Brothers. The latest retake of Les Miserables, the ninth, I think, should be further proof to Hollywood that old wine often tastes much better in new bottles...
...instance, what more can be said about U. S. Diplomacy" and the "Palestine Issue" as of April, 1948, than the accompanying cartoon says? A treatise on how important oil is to America and to the whole free world would miss the hypocrisy of our stand. Documented proof that we were really interested in the people directly affected would disguise the fact that, no matter how we felt about that, oil was more important. And what simple denunciation of our policy would have the force of this cartoon? from The Herblock Book, Beacon Press...