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Word: commits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week the U. S. Supreme Court, reversing an NLRB order to Fansteel to rehire the strikers, ruled out the sit-down for good & all. Said Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes (Justices Reed & Black dissenting in part*): "The employes had the right to strike, but they had no license to commit acts of violence or to seize their employer's plant. ... To justify such conduct [as NLRB had justified it] because of the existence of a labor dispute or of an unfair labor practice would be to put a premium on resort to force instead of legal remedies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sit-Down Out | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...Most prone to commit crimes are frustrated groups such as undersized people, soldiers, divorcees, poor people

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: For Freud, for Society, for Yale | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...conducted between the young the young lady on Vag's left and her robust little confidante on Vag's right. Vag was wet, he couldn't see, and now he couldn't even hear. He knew that if he didn't leave immediately, he would lose all control and commit the heinous offense of bashing together two female heads. Muttering insincere apologies, the Vagabond clambered over legs and seats and splashed his way to the nearest subway entrance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/2/1939 | See Source »

Edwin Mims, Instructor and Tutor in Government, apparently attempted to commit suicide by jumping off the Week's Bridge into the Charles River last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EDWIN MIMS ATTEMPTS SUICIDE IN CHARLES RIVER LAST NIGHT | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

When investigators closed in, one of Swindler Bob's front-men threatened to kill Prosecutor Fennelly and then commit suicide. He was sent to the psychopathic ward of Bellevue Hospital. Last week Promoter Bob was sent to jail for seven years. He had lost his touch. It took the jury only two and a half hours to convict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECURITIES: Gold Bricks | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

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