Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Adler) is a farce-melodrama as lighthearted as Tiny Tim, and as lame. It concerns a young man who can spot the weak link in every crime. Offering his services to a "Bankers' Protective Association" to help prevent robberies, he finds himself among crooks, is forced to help commit them...
Briefly, Trouble in July is the story of how a colored boy named Sonny Clark is hunted down and lynched for a rape he did not commit. More elaborately, it is an account of the behavior of Southern whites during such a man hunt. In particular, it is a tragicomic study of the plight of 300-pound Jeff McCurtain, sheriff of Julie County, Georgia...
...material shortages had been long developing, but only recently have the Japanese begun howling about them. Not so long ago any statesman with the gall to criticize the Government as openly as Diet members have in the last month (TIME, Feb. 12) would have been obliged to commit honorable suicide. Newspapers have suddenly begun speaking out of turn. Said nationalistic Kokumin...
Heartily condemning the present war in Europe, Representative Fish warned against all "iams" (except Americanism), which might entangle the nation in it. "If these old nations of the world insist on going stark, raving mad, arming to the teeth, going to war, and committing suicide, there is no reason why we should commit suicide...
...vote was moved. The Chamber's division bell rang. A few straddling Liberals left the room rather than commit themselves. The Provincial Legislature then condemned the National Government -aye, 44 (including the entire Conservative Opposition...