Word: proofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...internal price policies. The accords were entirely unprecedented. In World War I, which was virtually decided by the economic factor, the two countries had nothing but a common grain agreement and, in the last months, transport and food councils. Said suave French Finance Minister Paul Reynaud: "No better proof than this economic and financial accord could be found of the common will to carry this fight to a finish. It has been inspired by the same spirit that made possible unity of command for the military forces...
...Kennedy's overstuffed briefcase came for Mr. Roosevelt's inspection stacks of reports "too confidential for the cables." In them, some said, was a basis for a U. S. move toward international peace. Stuff & guff, said others; in the Kennedy dossiers was proof there will be no international peace soon.* Only sure fact was that Mr. Kennedy likes to spend December in Florida...
...those who know how to read, this English collection of documents is really a unique and positive proof of England's unquestioned will to war. . . . That the goal of [British Foreign Secretary Viscount] Halifax and his helper, the British Warsaw Ambassador [Sir Howard] Kennard, consisted of keeping the Poles from entering into serious negotiations with Germans is fully and completely confirmed by the English Blue Book. It appears scarcely believable, but it is nevertheless true...
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...Philadelphia, Magistrate Elias Myers demanded proof that a burlesqueen's dress was too flimsy. The proof: a detective folded the costume, squeezed it into a match...