Word: undertook
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...much soldiering. Luck was with him. Because he had been drafted briefly in World War I, Bidault was released by the Nazis in a general parole of World War I veterans. He made his way to Lyon, ostensibly to resume teaching. But instead, the meek-seeming little professor undertook the hazardous life of an underground patriot. He joined a Roman Catholic resistance group named Combat, soon was publicly identified as a resister and had to plunge into hiding, ultimately became known throughout the French Resistance movement for his ability to smooth over differing points of view...
...Amendment," "No person. . . shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself. . ." The letter argued from the accepted principle that the privilege of "testimonial silence" which is granted in criminal proceedings at all levels, is also granted in Congressional investigations. On that basis it generously undertook to give advice, legal and non-legal, to citizens who may be subpoenaed to testify in such investigations...
...done something great." For the matter of Communists in Government, the soft spot in the Democratic hide this election year, Harry Truman threw his fiercest strokes. By giving the impression that the list of 2,200 discharged security risks included a lot of Communists, Truman charged, "they undertook to perpetrate one of the biggest hoaxes ever attempted in American history . . . This is the Republican Administration I am talking about-not irresponsible members of Congress . . . They announced from the White House, with much fanfare, that they were doing a wonderful job-simply magnificent-of cleaning the Communists out of the Government...
...engines for Zero fighters during the war, and postwar had switched some of its machines into the manufacture of textile machinery. Koehring Co. took one-fourth of the stock in the new company and a royalty of 5% on gross sales. In return, it gave its technical help, and undertook to train Japanese technicians in the U.S. Since then, the company has turned out $1,000,000 worth of cement-handling equipment, increased its backlog...
Died. Dr. Florence Rena Sabin, 81, one of America's first women scientists, who, at Johns Hopkins, probed the mysteries of the lymphatic system and the bloodstream (1902-25), went on to investigate new methods of combating tuberculosis, and in 1944 undertook a successful revamping of Colorado's ailing public health system; of a heart attack; in Denver...