Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matter what brutalities they might commit nor how queerly they might act, Nazi Storm Troop leaders under Adolf Hitler have always banked on his reputation of never letting an old comrade down...
...America induced a like number of families to sign. The Philadelphia and Hartford Federations of Churches ap proved the Legion. Without mentioning it by name the Central Conference of American Rabbis commended its aims. The Ohio Presbyterian Synod voted in favor of the Legion. So did the executive commit tee of the Federal Council of Churches, although with characteristic caution it refrained from recommending the pledge to its constituents...
...clean-shaven at the beginning of an Arkansas train ride, had a full-grown beard at the trip's end. He explained he did not want to get off and walk because his family did not expect him until the train got in. Another traveler tried to commit suicide by lying on the tracks in front of the train, starved to death before the locomotive reached...
...unlike Manhattan's First National, which is currently much perturbed by the old but false re port that it scorns accounts of less than $100,000. In size it will rank among the first ten in New York. Its 1932 balance sheet, as dug out by the Senate Commit tee, revealed deposits of $340,000.000, as sets of $424.000,000. Henceforth, when ever the New York State banking superintendent calls for statements of condition. J. P. Morgan's business will be a matter of public record...
...Wall, Last week a mammoth trial of in Communists on charges of "preparing to commit high treason,'' opened at Breslau. Soviet Russia's mounting resentment against Nazi abuse of Communists and Communism was reflected to a certain extent in the total of Russian imports from Germany in the first quarter of 1934: 21,000,000 marks as against 181,000,000 marks for the same period...