Word: proving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miami, Fla. a Negress claimed a $6.75 check payable to her late husband. Asked to prove that he was dead, she answered: "I shot him and I've got papers here to prove it." Her papers did. She got the check...
...invitations Dictator Trujillo had yearned for-a gala at the Pan American Union, dinner with Acting Chief of Staff Marshall of the U. S. Army, audience with Secretary Hull, tea with Franklin Roosevelt. Also included in the program was a luncheon by Haiti's Minister Elie Lescot, to prove that Haiti has forgiven Trujillo for his troops' extinction of some 18.000 Haitians in bloody border patrol work...
...resurrect the dead? Attorney General Murphy ruled it could and Franklin Roosevelt signed the act determined to conduct the nation's monetary affairs on that assumption. Republican Senators Taft and Austin argued to the last that no resurrection was possible, but had to admit the only way to prove their point was by a court review. This could be had only in the event that some one claims damage if & when Franklin Roosevelt does devalue the dollar further...
Meanwhile the Nye committee pumped J. P. Morgan, Thomas Lament and their partners, trying to prove that they had helped to grease the skids that plunged the U. S. into war. There was no evidence that they had tried to. It could not even be proved that they had done so unwittingly. Whatever the Nye committee did or did not prove, the new Peace Passion of the U. S. had to have an outlet. Its outlet was the Neutrality Act of August...
...Concession, and there explained how it all happened. Some Japanese sentries, said the General, are simple peasants who do not understand European standards of modesty. His countrymen, he explained, do not mind disrobing in public or even parboiling in a public bath with members of the opposite sex. To prove his good faith, the General offered to take his own clothes off then & there for the correspondents...