Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...office of the Questura (police) and left alone for two or three hours in the stench of moldy paper and urine characteristic of Italian police stations. Then he was told that he was guilty of high treason and would be shot in the morning. S. K. could not commit suicide, because the police had discovered where he kept his granule of cyanide, and took it away from him. How he got out of that one proved to be a turning point in S. K.'s relations with the anti-Fascist "underground"-the cryptic groups that with sabotage, strikes, espionage...
...industrialists who are now in exile, will then attempt to formulate a definite plan for the reconstruction of the Royal Dutch Empire after the war is over. This Committee, although it is approved by the Royal Dutch Government, is only semi-official as the Government is not anxious to commit itself on matters of policy at this time, according to Professor de Haas...
...could not wait, it could risk its naval strength in sustained attacks on Japan's long sea lines from Yokohama to the Indies. The U.S. could choose its Pacific theater and commit the maximum of strength of planes, tanks and men to the chosen front. The U.S. might even have to choose between action against Germany in Europe and action against Japan in the Pacific, gambling that defeat of one would lead to defeat of the other...
...time all incoming and outgoing mail was censored; censors sat in every newspaper and cable office in Brazil. Although the chief purpose of the censorship was to guard Brazilian neutrality, censors once killed a story about a Bolivian woman who tried to commit suicide after her dog had been run over. Grounds: it set a bad example...
...lately electrocuted Murder, Inc. killer, Martin ("Buggsy") Goldstein, left a $12,000 life-insurance policy to his widow. Prudential Insurance Co. contended it would be "against public policy" to pay it, since a man who knows that his kin are cared for may be more likely to commit a crime. Judge Grover M. Moscowitz, in U.S. District Court last week, finding no precedent for the case, thought otherwise. Said he, "It may be well to ask what sort of determent the voiding of a man's insurance may be when the death penalty does not halt his criminal...