Word: committing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upon their respective oaths present: that Adolph Hitler, on the thirtieth day of June in the year of our Lord 1934, with force of arms, in the state of Germany on the continent of Europe and within the jurisdiction of this court, did unlawfully, feloniously, and with malice aforethought, commit certain high crimes against humanity, contrary to the laws of humanity...
...Barstow case the philosophic Mr. Chan is preparing to return to China and the numerous little Chans when he receives an impassioned plea from Pamela Gray to come to the aid of her brother who is to be hung in three days for a murder which he did not commit. Chan consents and soon appears at the Hunt Club where Lt. Hamilton was murdered, supposedly by Gray. With his uncanny eye for telling bits of evidence, Chane soon finds out enough to cause an attempt to be made on his own cause an attempt to be made on his life...
Leon Fraser, president of the World Bank for International Settlements, foresaw an early return to the gold standard. . . . William Gibbs McAdoo had always found Upton Sinclair "a fine fellow and one of genuine sincerity . . . but I don't want to commit myself." . . . Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassador, boomed and hawed amiably, sang a snatch of Gilbert & Sullivan. . . . Frank Arthur Vanderlip tossed pearls that he might have sold to the Saturday Evening Post: "My deductions from talk with Minister of Economics Schacht is that things in Germany will be worse before they get better. Their need of cotton is acute. Their...
...Wood Evans, president of the Bar Association, willingly took up the job of chastising a segment of his own profession. "The Bar . . . has been strangely apathetic toward dishonest lawyers," cried he, "and toward that offensive creature usually found in the large centres of population who advises clients how to commit crimes with the minimum risk of detection. . . . To the extent that they advise clients in advance how to commit crimes, whether crimes of violence or commercial frauds, to that extent they are as clearly lawyer criminals as are any of the so-called criminal lawyers, and should receive as such...
...Government claimed to possess proof last week that Director Apold would have received a portfolio in the Nazi Cabinet expected to be formed in Austria, after Dollfuss' assassination, by the late Chancellor's treacherous Minister to Italy. Dr. Anton Rintelen who sought to commit suicide when the insurrection failed. Dr. Rintelen was convalescent last week and Director Apold was supposed to know something about an attempt by Nazis to kidnap Rintelen out of his hospital ''because he knows too much." This attempt Vienna police foiled in time's nick. Last week Director Apold...