Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...balanced budget, debt retirement, lower taxes (in that order); Government stimulation of housing; rent control; prepaid health insurance at the state level; a permanent FEPC; the Taft-Hartley law (except for the anti-Communist and union press provisions); public power development; the U.N.; the Marshall Plan (conditioned on proof of mutual cooperation & self-help); equal attention to the problems of the Orient; Hawaiian statehood; universal military training...
What, then, could the U.S. do? Against Russian fifth columns, against sabotage and debilitating strikes, against the seizure of a country by its "own" Communist Party, the U.S. had as yet no effective weapon. The fall of Czechoslovakia four weeks ago, was final proof of that...
...Cobb and his fellow-hecklers had not been so absorbed in creating the kind of incident on which Communist propagandists thrive, he might have been able to hear the speakers and would thus have been saved from slanderous error. The Czech coup served as final proof that the Communists will destroy civil liberties even in a nation with democratic traditions; Saturday's meeting demonstrated that Communists are not by any means the only enemies of these liberties. In this at least, Mr. Cobb et al are their spiritual allies. Edgar M. Rubin...
...Personally, I would deplore any definite proof that Groves and Traven are one. Traven has worked very hard at being mysterious ... in a world where too much is known about too many...
Public Exit. That was proof enough for Bazelon. At a directors' meeting he insisted that the companies sell their rayon to more buyers, police each one to see that no rayon got into the grey market. The company said that was impossible...