Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...condemned Estonians a choice, President Päts decreed last week as follows: "One hour before the scheduled time of the execution, the condemned shall be taken to a death cell, where the state prosecutor will read the death sentence and ask the prisoner whether he is willing to commit suicide. If the answer is in the affirmative, the prosecutor will hand the condemned a glass of poison-the kind of poison to be determined by the National Health Board. If the doomed man fails to take the poison within five minutes he will be hanged...
Toying with a pistol, General Alexander Dimitriejevitch sat in his home in Belgrade last week. He had been cashiered as Marshal of the Court for failing to save the life of King Alexander. All the army expected him to commit suicide. While fascinated correspondents waited. General Dimitriejevitch put his pistol away, called rumors that he had already committed suicide ''ridiculous...
...They were tired of carrying him, with extension after extension (TIME, March 12). They wanted to foreclose. With a frantic gleam in his dark eyes André Citroën shrilled "Messieurs, on the day I am deprived of control over the business I have built up I shall commit suicide...
Whether or not this Putsch was justified, whether Hitler did or did not commit high crimes against humanity, will be the question before the Debating Council tonight...
Then it was, when thousands of intellectually able men and women of every shades of political thought refused to commit themselves, Bilbo, the coorageous champion of right, truth, honesty and morality, fought the battle of his life to keep Mississippi dry, and I challenge the world to disprove the fact, that it was due more to his efforts than to any other factor, that the victory was won, and Mississippi was kept dry. & Saved from this debauchery...