Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Institute, and his landscape. Southern 'in. the Phillips Memorial Gallery Washington, are perhaps the two most jobs of their kind owned in the S. A big, bland Frenchman with a love of fast automobiles (he owned five), a facile mastery of tech and a cold Norman disinclination to commit himself to artistic movements, 58-year-old Derain is France's particular among the moderns because he car on the glories of French tradition...
...Chicago, Inventor Cecil L. Snyder, 45, told his wife, Minnie, that he had thought up a plan that was going to make him $20,000,000. Because they were on relief, Mrs. Snyder promptly asked acting County Judge Albert E. Isley to commit him to an institution. In court the head of Cook County's Psychopathic Hospital and his assistant both testified that Snyder was insane. Taking the case into his own hands, Snyder explained his plan (to sue 28 States for infringement of a system he had invented for registering automobiles), declared it would return $20 for each...
Teuton blood courses through many veins in the British Dominion of the Union of South Africa and, during the long-brewing international crises between Czechoslovakia and Germany, cagey Premier James Barry Munnick Hertzog has refused to commit himself for or against the Nazis. But last week, as events in Europe rolled toward war, the Premier indulged in a sudden burst of loyalty to the Mother Country, personally took to the Assembly floor to oppose a pro-Nazi deputy's motion that South Africa refuse to support Britain if war comes. 'T am still very confident that there will...
When young Dr. Robert Towner Hill of Indiana University's School of Medicine performs an experiment he ponders the results with true scientific caution and does not commit himself until he knows exactly what he is talking about. Last week he revealed to reporters an astonishing secret he had guarded closely for three years. In 1935, he said, he castrated several male mice and planted ovaries in their transparent ears. He wanted to observe the activity of the borrowed organs but nothing happened. Disappointed, he went off on a three months' vacation, forgot all about the mice. When...
...boiling. After a two-hour conference Lord Runciman's chief aide, Mr. Frank Trelawny Arthur Ashton-Gwatkin flew to London to confer with Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax. He was sa: to have reported: 1) that Führer Henlin was virtually a "straw man," repeatedly refusing to commit himself and saying he must first consult Berlin; 2) that unless Britain again issued a firm warning to Germany, Lord Runciman might not be able to keep the situation in hand. In Central Europe, chancelleries buzzed with a story that German Field Marshall Hermann Wilhelm Göring had just told...