Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...YEARS IN A QUANDARY-Robert Benchley-Harper ($2.50). These 105 brief Benchleys stand as incontrovertible proof of the wide range of a hard-pressed humorist's fancy...
This speech was read to the Conference by Senior Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes, 69, of Washington, a suave, well-dressed cleric who has a rich wife and gets good fees for lectures and sermons. Declared Keynoter Hughes: "Property, whether among ministers or merchants, is not proof of iniquity. In many individual cases the profit motive has been joined by the benevolent motive, as multiplied evidences would show...
...that the propositions of the Croix de Feu and the parties of the "interests" hold no lure any longer. In holding the fort against the attacks of the reactionaries during the trying days of the past year, the People's Front took a daring chance and won. It is proof of the theory that even under the most confusing multiple party system, men who find their safety definitely threatened can form their own group to offer common resistance...
Same day the Karpis-Campbell rewards were announced, Director Hoover received proof that not all Senators regard him and his work as does Tennessee's Kenneth Douglas McKellar, who as chairman of a Senate Appropriations subcommittee recently lopped $225,000 off the Bureau's 1937 appropriation increase recommended by a House committee, accused Director Hoover of "running wild" (TIME, April 27). Up in the Senate last week rose speaker after speaker to praise the Bureau of Investigation's work, insist that the $225,000 be put back in the appropriation bill. "I would not revive...
...smaller and squattier. It is almost perfectly streamlined, even the license plates and tail-lamp being recessed into the body and covered with Pyralin windows flush with the streamlining. There are no door handles; the doors must be opened with special keys. Dr. Bridges pronounced the Lightning Bug crash-proof and carbon-monoxide-proof. "My whole aim," said he, "was to show what could be done to attain safety, economy and readability in a small...