Word: committing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stupidity which is central over Chicago could not exist if it were not itself isolated from reason. . . . [Schroeder] was still making isolationist speeches just before last week's election. Such a stand . . . makes the suggestion of his name an insult to sound Republicanism. ... If the party wished to commit suicide it could hardly do a quicker or more effective job than by placing a Schroeder in command...
...stricken areas. In Loyang he saw bundles of leaves being sold to refugees for food, a dollar a bunch. Children's bellies were bloated and distended with such Foodstuffs. Sometimes starving families collect all remnants of food in their homes, eat their last meal and then commit suicide. While the Bishop was visiting one village, a farmer gathered his family round him, fed them their last full meal and then told them he had poisoned the food they had just eaten...
Recruiting Office. In Elizabeth, N. J., County Judge Walter L. Hetfield put a would-be suicide on probation, indignantly pointed out the enormity of his offense: "This is no time to try to commit suicide when our country needs all its available manpower...
Production Tsar Nelson made it clear that he wanted no part of this helping-hand job for WPB, which had troubles enough already with war production. What he wanted for himself was a clear conscience when and if he has to commit mayhem on small business to take over its equipment and manpower. The U.S. has over 2,750,000 small businesses (fewer than 100 employes) with a total payroll of more than 8,350,000 people. Though only 169,000 are manufacturers, they all consume manpower-and manpower in the long run may well become the most compelling...
...special contingent of WAVES will arrive at Radcliffe within the next two months to set up the only Naval Supply School for women in the nation. Although Harvard and Radcliffe officials would not commit themselves last night, Captain Kenneth C. McIntosh, commanding officer of the Navy Supply Corps, who will probably head the new unit, confirmed the story...