Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soldiers marched the mutinous sailors to jail whence they expected to be sent to the Portuguese penal colony in the tropics. In an adroit proclamation the Portuguese Government intimated that it had known beforehand of the coming mutiny and, instead of nipping it, had deliberately permitted the sailors to commit a crime and receive a punishment which Dictator Oliveira Salazar trusted last week will impress other Portuguese sympathetic with proletarian Madrid. In Lisbon cafes it was jest-of-the-week to observe: "The Great Powers are so neutral they don't care whether the Spanish Fascists, the Carlists...
...Nominee Landon's prospective attendance which had converted an otherwise routine conference into a spectacularly newsworthy event. He realized, too, that any attempt to take political advantage of that circumstance would react sharply against him. Day before the meeting it was announced that he would not seek to commit his conferees to any statement of policy. Sternly rejected was a proposal by Democratic Governor Clyde Herring of Iowa to trot the President out for a bow and a speech at the State Fair while Governor Landon lolled in his hotel. Instead, President Roosevelt ordered himself treated as non-politically...
...Attorney Ulysses Sigel Webb had had informations filed against 23 prominent citizens, including President Arthur Meese and Secretary Frederick Cairns of the Healdsburg Chamber of Commerce, City Editor Julian Mayar of the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat. All were charged with kidnapping, assault with a deadly weapon, assault to commit bodily injury on Green and Nitzberg. The defendants, later reduced to 21. all represented by one law firm, had their $500 bail paid at once by sympathetic friends...
...Prominent Soviet figures found it a great nerve strain to have been even remotely mentioned in court last week as having known some-thing was afoot against Stalin, even though charged with nothing themselves. Among half a dozen Bolshevik bigwigs who thus jittered, first to commit suicide was Comrade Mikhail Tomsky, onetime chairman of the Soviet All-Union Council of Trade Unions and Director of the State Publishing House...
Acquitted, Drs. Tilton Edwin Tillman and Samuel George Boyd, who two years ago sterilized Ann Cooper Hewitt (TIME, Jan. 20); of mayhem and conspiracy to commit mayhem; in San Francisco...