Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conviction there has been no evidence discovered indicating Mooney's innocence. . . . Mooney and the radicals publicly and privately opposed the Preparedness Day parade. .Their insensate hatred of our present form of government and a desire to substitute the Red flag for the Stars & Stripes impelled them to commit the deed. Mooney and [Warren K.] Billings entered into a conspiracy to terrify the citizens by exploding a bomb. Billings, tool and agent of Mooney, carried the bomb in a suitcase. . . . Mooney has not presented any facts in support of his petition which have not heretofore been presented. . . . The 'frame...
...captured him until he woke up in a Chinese hospital. The Japanese courtmartial, when these facts had been established, complimented Major Kuga and dismissed him with all honor-but his hero's brain throbbed with the madding, ignominious fact that he had been "captured." Major Kuga wished to commit harakiri-to disembowel himself with his sword-but his own sword had been broken in the battle, an aggravation of his shame. Brooding and white-lipped Major Kuga walked last week to the exact spot on Shanghai's battlefield where the hand grenade had knocked him unconscious. There, putting...
...Stockholm the Royal Government did not of course know that Ivar Kreuger was going to commit suicide, but they had taken precautionary steps. If anything should happen (and there were numerous "anythings" in addition to suicide the Royal Government was ready to rush through a bill to stabilize Swedish business by granting a moratorium to Kreuger & Toll. When the news came, the Swedish Parliament put through this bill at a secret session, ordered Swedish stock exchanges to remain closed. For years conservative Swedish financiers have frowned on Ivar Kreuger's operations as "too big for Sweden...
Sitting at the very desk where he measured the fatal Sacco-Vanzetti bullets, with instruments accurate up to one ten-thousandth of an inch, Dr. Magrath affirmed the statement that no innocent person in his opinion, has ever been executed in Massachusetts for a crime he did not commit. The notorious "Bullet Number 3", responsible for the death of Parmenter, in the Sacco-Vanzetti case, was found to be grooved from a pit in the gun barrel, probably caused by rust. Such a pit was found in the gun of Sacco, and test slugs fired from it by investigators, here...
Such is war, as General Sherman said in 1864, and as Shanghai saw last week. The Japanese commander, General Uyeda, was personally desperate. He knew he might have to commit hara-kiri if his offensive got much further behind schedule, and during the first 18 hours he changed his General Staff Headquarters three times: 1) a Japanese cotton mill; 2) a Chinese cottage; 3) Ti Futan University...