Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they did not succeed in writing the La Follette planks into the Republican platform. They were not expected to do that They were there to make a gesture-a pro forma offering of their planks. For the Republican Party to have accepted the offering would have been a sure proof of its insanity-because the La Follette platform denounced all the major works of the Republican Party-the tariff, the railroad law, the Mellon tax plan, the "degraded foreign policy...
There is yet no absolute proof, but it is an utterly reasonable inference from the course of events thus far that Mr. La Follette will run as a third candidate for President. It is to be expected that the Conference for Progressive Political Action-a Labor group in which the railroad brotherhoods are prominent-will find in its convention in Cleveland on July 4 that the old parties have nothing to offer that it wants. It may invite Mr. La Follette to head a third ticket and Mr. La Follette may accept...
...State Department supplied positive proof of the friendly attitude of official Japan by publishing a communication from the Japanese Government on the reported rush of emigrants from Japan who are trying to enter the U. S. before July 1 (date when new Immigration Law becomes effective). The statement read in part: "Most of the applicants for passage to the United States are persons who have been visiting in Japan and are anxious to return now to the United States in order to avoid any question as to their status as returning immigrants under the changed regulations which come into force...
...capital stock in his scientifically-suspected, self-feeding lamp, was upheld by ex-Supreme Court Justice New-burger, who, as referee, dismissed the proceedings. The opinion held that, although two illuminating experts had declared (without examination) that Tomadelli's lamp violated well-known scientific principles, the burden of proof was on the plaintiff (the Attorney General) to show that the representations of the promoter were consciously false and made with intent to deceive...
Undoubtedly it is true that Sears, Roebuck's business has not been making anything like as good a showing of late as its rival in the mail-order business, Montgomery Ward & Co., and this fact is pointed out as proof of the Ku Klux Klan boycott story. Three years ago, Sears, Roebuck & Co.'s business was almost three times as great in volume as Montgomery Ward...