Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...denying Mayor Yoneoka's piratical point,* the prosecution argued that anyhow the Death penalty must be meted out, "because otherwise a bad example would be set," encouraging desperadoes of all races to commit piracy and seek haven at Dairen. This lucid view impressed the Japanese judges. They not only confirmed the lower court's sentence of Death upon Captain Taudien and Butcher Westermann, considered the ringleaders, but ordered the life sentences of Silk Tester Gautschi and Mechanic Müller stiffened to execution. Only Mechanic Schroeder, whose protestations of "my innocence, so help me, Mein Gott!" have been...
Referee Cohalan frowned dangerously. "Women don't dress in crinoline or hoop skirts any longer." growled he. "They wear lounging pajamas. Just because a woman comes in and takes off her coat and puts on lingerie doesn't mean that she is about to commit adultery...
More evidence was offered. There had been trunks and luggage in the apartment. "Trunks and luggage don't commit adultery," cried the exasperated referee. Thereupon he made startling news for New Yorkers by refusing to grant a divorce on what laymen have come to consider standard evidence in such cases, by packing Mrs. Wright off to get sounder evidence from moving men, the raided apartment house's tenants, janitor and elevator...
...State did not dispute last week that Prisoner Roiderer is a bona fide U. S. citizen, born in Bavaria in 1894, naturalized in Cleveland in 1922. Nonetheless the German State contends that this U. S. citizen could and did commit high treason against the German Reich. Such a crime is possible only under the New Justice. Outside Nazidom it is a basic legal axiom that no man can commit treason against a country...
...Philadelphia last week newshawks, none of whom wrote shorthand, took down to the best of their abilities certain remarks by Japanese Ambassador Hiroshi Saito, a fidgety and incessant smoker. They agreed that they had heard him say: "Japan will commit national suicide if necessary to pursue her plan of establishing peace in the Far East. She will pursue this policy if she has to fight both Great Britain and the United States and regardless of the whims of these two nations. Japan has only peace in mind. If we feel it necessary for our purpose of establishing peace...