Word: proved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME (Nov. 7) reports the offer of the Madison (Wis.) Capital-Times to donate $1000 to charity if Chicago Tribuneman Chesly Manly can prove the truth of his story that the La Follette (Civil Liberties) inquiry was conceived by John L. Lewis, and used to smear and intimidate employers opposed...
...will give $100 to any charity designated by TIME if Tribuneman Edwards can prove the truth of that statement to the satisfaction of any judge designated by TIME. More- I will give $100 under the same terms if I cannot prove, by the evidence of my dispatches published in the St. Louis Star-Times, by the records of the Western Union Telegraph Co., and by the testimony of press association and other reporters, that I attended the five consecutive sessions of the committee from October 17 to 21, inclusive, which covered the testimony on the Michigan sitdown strikes, including...
...send a "simple memorandum" of instructions to section commanders about how to behave in future. Sir John Anderson, Lord Privy Seal, whose duties are to be those of a minister for civilian defense, blamed the whole thing on "enormous" British inertia, called upon all parties to "cooperate to prove that Democracy can function to protect itself as efficiently as a Dictatorship." Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare, while admitting "many mistakes of omission and commission," emphasized that His Majesty's Government did distribute 38,000,000 gas masks to the public, helped dig trenches in which 1,000,000 Britons...
Most radio shows laboriously present audience surveys and other statistical mumbo-jumbo to prove to sponsors that they can pull in listeners. None of this was necessary, however, when Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre of the Air was sold to Campbell Soup last week. Week before Mr. Welles had proved that his program had grip when his production of The War of the Worlds and the U. S. radio audience's gullibility had created a national panic. Mercury Theatre will replace Campbell Soup's Hollywood Hotel on CBS December...
...those used in the Austrian and Czech crises its disapproval of such barbarianism. To the pleas of France and England, Hitler has already shown himself impervious. But a scowling rebuke from the United States, doctrinal defender of South America, in which Hitler has evinced a colony interest, might prove a heavy restraining hand on the Brown Shirt shoulder, for the United States is one of the few countries which must still be conciliated--not dictated...