Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...study the investigators' report and from it, if necessary, prepare impeachment articles. Chairman of this committee was Representative Tipton who, a day after his portentous announcement, brought in his first article with more to follow. Described in a 65-page accusation was a Horton-Lea-Caldwell conspiracy "to commit acts for the personal aggrandizement and pecuniary gain of the co-conspirators . . . and for the purpose of enabling . . . Henry H. Horton continuously to be able to remain in the office of Governor and use the powers and influence of that office for his own advantage, gain and advancement...
Since he had not managed to commit suicide, Stephen Auspitz pulled himself together, ordered sold at once for what it will bring his "priceless" collection of Italian paintings, feature of a loan exhibition in London last year. Explaining the bankruptcy of Auspitz, Lieben & Co., officials said that since 1924 they had made three distinct efforts to put the bank on its feet by speculation. They speculated against the French franc, were fooled and lost heavily when Raymond Poincare stabilized and rehabilitated the money of his country. Second they invested in Dutch industrials, lost more. Third they...
...missing their work, a dark privacy for personal grief, a hushed solemnity. But are not pomp and ostentation an integral part of most funerals and is not daylight necessary to parade their magnificence? The Negroes of the South who take long days from their field and house work to commit their dead amid lugubrious festivities are not radically different from their white masters in this respect. For both, a burial is a show which the night would shroud and destroy. To most of us the earth is black enough already without darkening the sun on our last journey...
...Author, Consumptive, gaunt Maxim Gorki (Alicksei Maximovitch Pieshkov) has survived 63 years in spite of his disease, in spite of one attempt to commit suicide. A bystander like his hero, he took no part in the Revolution but is in good odor with the Soviet Government. Plain Russian Communists like him (although he spends nine months a year at his Italian villa) and have bought over 2,000,000 copies of his books in the last four years. Speaking no English, he does not know the phrase "moral turpitude," but on his single visit...
Near Balboa, Canal Zone, Chief Electrician Leslie W. Burnside of the motor ship Courageous jumped overboard to commit suicide, changed his mind, swam about for twelve hours before the S. S. Sabotawan picked...