Word: committing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Therefore Secretary Wallace did what the defunct Farm Board did: He announced he would not sell his 4,500,000 bale holdings until the price went up again, to 13? per lb. On the question of lending on the 1935 crop he was not yet willing to commit himself. Last week he hedged bravely...
...which many of our contributions have been made. They also, in light of Mr. Roosevelt's statements, provide an illustration of the fact that, quite often, goodwill is not gained by our efforts to assist worth while agencies." Silent Secretary. In four prime respects the House Ways & Means Commit tee went wide of the specifications laid down by President Roosevelt. Instead of grading up surtaxes only on individual in comes of $1,000,000 or more, it began with middling $50,000 incomes. Instead of a corporation income tax grading up from 10¾|% to 16¾% according...
...stormy crusading publisher, Nelson Rounsevell, has been enraging U. S. Army officers in the Canal Zone's Fort Clayton by headlining stories to the effect that merciless discipline and overwork in tropical heat have driven enlisted men to smoking narcotic marijuana cigarets, caused four of them to commit suicide. An Army investigation whitewashed officers. Last week Rounsevell was arrested on five criminal libel warrants, sworn out by topnotch U. S. Army officers in the Canal Zone. Bail...
...shining exception among Author Lewis' labored tales is his brilliant The Willow Walk, a first-rate story in any company. A small-town bank teller with a talent for dramatics wanted to commit a perfect crime, and did. He constructed the myth of his twin brother, John, hermit and religious fanatic, often posed as John to get the story believed. Then he stole $97,000, put on the character and clothing of fictitious John, waited for the search to die down. For 18 months he lived and prayed and slept as John, found himself becoming John. In desperation...
...Nazi prosecutor this was treason and worse. "You started your letter: 'Let God's grace be with us,' " cried he. "How did you dare commit such blasphemies to cover up common smuggling? I have not seen anything to equal it even in cases of Jewish and Galician grafters...