Word: committed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unwise for foolish, impulsive men to commit acts trespassing on the agreement. Let me warn you also, there may be men among you who have wormed their way into positions of responsibility, who may advise us to take some wrongful action because they know that that action will bring trouble and confusion upon the union. "I ask you all to work in co-operation with your officers and shop stewards so that the obligations of your union may be liquidated in fullest degree...
...Forum expressed themselves as being "open minded." In the straw vote taken at the end the five still remained open minded concerning the President's bill. After the forum had been dismissed, chairman Holcombe remarked contentedly, "Well, I got through that without expressing my opinion." He declined to commit himself on the question...
...nations which sent him troops clamoring for return favors. Another powder barrel may be put in the magazine of Europe. The alternative is an armistice while the outcome of the war is still in doubt, and the erection of a moderate government to avoid the excesses either side might commit if victorious. However dream-like and impossible this solution may prove to be, it is at least a straw for Europe to clutch...
...from London. ... I can re-call when people here received tales of horror. . . . Didn't we learn something then? Are we going to be worked into a similar frenzy?" Congress, however, was not to be denied the fun of counter-baiting the Brown-Shirts. Before the House Rules Commit tee, Representative Samuel Dickstein of New York, who is perennially excited about alien infiltrations, charged that one Fritz Kuhn, onetime Ford Motor Co. chem ist, had organized a subversive army of 200,000 Nazis in the U. S. Discovered by newshawks in a Detroit office plastered with Nazi swastikas, Chemist...
...scenes in the local theatre, where a German dancer had fallen, broken her wrist. He fixed her up as well as he could, thought no more about it. But on one of his weekly visits to a neighboring town he saw her again. This time she had tried to commit suicide. When she lost her job Dr. David took care of her, finally brought her home as governess for his little boy, who was very sensitive. Leni, for that was her name, was a great success with the little boy, but did not make a hit with Mrs. Newcome...