Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George Murphy) is a serious young automobile salesman with a talent for getting barely perceptible promotions and a tendency to hiss Hitler at the movies. When he threatens to commit suicide if his proposal is rejected, she is really interested, asks breathlessly: "How?" Later, unraveling her fiancé with a phone-girl friend, she concludes: "I think maybe he gets promoted too much...
...discovering German "sanity" last week, few of the doctors recalled that: 1) according to available statistics, 4.1 out of every 10,000 Germans commit suicide (in America the rate is 1.4); 2) despite Hitler's attempt to kill off the insane, the population of German lunatic asylums rose from 185,000 in 1923 to almost 350,000 in 1936. Nor did many of the psychiatrists recall how they had hailed recently a book (Beyond the Clinical Frontiers) by Dr. Edward Adam Strecker of the University of Pennsylvania, which put forth the theory that the Germans are victims of "mass...
Getting there first is one job the Navy could successfully take on. Only deterrent to preventive occupation last week was not Navy realism, but the U.S. State Department. For any such blow at Vichy would destroy the last diplomatic threads between Washington and Petain, might even commit the U.S. to fighting where the Navy would have a harder time...
...presumably opposed to "acts of individual violence." Unfortunately, it is not the YCL but their members that commit such acts. If the hypocritical statements of the Stalinists are to be given even superficial credence, then it the YCL itself condemn the prpetrators of the cowardly attack! Sidney William Benson...
...certain type of people who read that get it imbedded in their minds and go out and commit such crimes," Timilty declared. He gave as an example the publication of a recent atrocity story which was followed the next day by the unprecedented record of 40 similar outrages...