Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill providing for equal divorce rights for both sexes was passed by a vote of 257 to 26. The bill now goes to the House of Lords for approval. Under this bill women will no longer be obliged to prove desertion or cruelty in addition to misconduct to obtain a divorce. Thus they are placed on an equal footing with...
...American labor's political policy was designed to satisfy the requirements of the great mass of wage earners of our country and that it is the outgrowth of their experience, study and observation. Any person who comes forward with a proposal that differs from their conclusions will have to prove to them that their conclusions are mistaken...
...helpless ward of the state but a buxom, independent part of it, not an enemy but a supporter of the present capitalistic order, not a body with untested theories but one with policies matured out of experience. He has wasted no time in proving the truism that combination of labor was inevitable; what he does prove by the tenour of his words is that such combination is proper and good for the health of the economic world...
...testified to Garvey's extravagance in the West Indies, asserting that he had " gone broke at the races." The Assistant Treasurer of the line testified that Garvey had appropriated for himself money collected for the Association and for the Black Star Line. Unless Marcus Garvey can bring evidence to prove the propriety of his financial operations, the case will end with the Provisional President of Africa behind the bars for common fraud...
...Russia's great plagues, have been almost stamped out, and trachoma, a third, has been placed largely under control. This last work is reminiscent of the magnificent fight against yellow fever waged by Walter Reed in Cuba and by General Gorgas in the Panama Caual Zone, and goes to prove, with theirs, that all great American victories abroad are not won by gunpowder or the diplomacy of capitalism...