Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, July 28): "Once again the U. S. has taken the lead in the international peace movement. . . . Thanks to the Senate's bold initiative, the ratification of the Treaty by the other signatory powers will be greatly speeded up. There has been a certain hesitation in most nations to commit themselves to treaty adherence before others had made their attitude clear. We praise the profound wisdom of the American Senate. Our faith in the Treaty has never wavered...
...North Sea and of Brooksby, Viscount Borodale of Wexford, son-in-law of the late Chicago drygoods tycoon Marshall Field Sr., commander of the 1st battle cruiser squadron in the Battle of Jutland (May 31, 1916), Lord Rector of Edinburgh University (1917), said: "We are about to commit the great appalling blunder of signing away the sea power by which the British Empire came into being and is maintained today. . . . The most enlightened sea officers with whom I talked have condemned the Treaty absolutely as one which will render the navy impotent and incapable of performing the services for which...
...shops $3,000 worth of haberdashery on credit which he pawned "for money to live like a gentleman." When she last saw him, said Madge Miller, "poor Mr. Potts was on his way to make a clean breast of everything at Cambridge," and she understood that he intended to commit suicide...
Opponents of the famed criminological thesis which says "It is insane to commit murder, therefore every murderer is insane, therefore no murderer should be punished," observed last week that in Germany this syllogism seems to have badly broken down. Triumphantly they pointed out that Coachman Kuerten, Harrman and Angerstein all lived orderly lives apart from their crimes, showed no other symptoms of insanity, seemed to be actuated as killers by what one detective last week called "sane malice...
...abroad, made a name for himself on an international finance commission. Then Hilda wanted to marry again, divorced Cope. Too late she discovered she could not remarry in the Episcopal Church unless she was the innocent party in a divorce for adultery. She insisted Cope marry her again and commit adultery, thus making her divorce divinely sanctioned. But events at last were too much for her, proved she was wrong although she knew she was right...