Word: betrayed
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Admitting that he originated the leaflet Mayor Thompson explained that Mrs. McCormick had deserted his presidential candidacy at the Republican National Convention in 1928. He added: "As long as I am permitted to live I will never betray the people of Chicago by voting for any member of the McCormick family for anything...
Pressmen waited for Senator Nye thus challenged to make a hot denial of responsibility for the ransackings and riflings. But Senator Nye made no denial. Instead he interrogated Dannenberg detectives, was told that his own investigators had tried to bribe the private sleuths to betray their employer. A roll of money was thrown down on the committee table as evidence of the bribe. Declared Chairman...
...Chronic indebtedness finally compelled his retirement from Prime Minister Baldwin's cabinet in 1928. As chairman of Greater London & Counties Trust, Ltd. he has sought to stabilize his violently fluctuating fortunes. In business he has had his usual success and prominence. His heavily lined face and heavy-hanging hands betray his persistent fondness for strong drink. Last fortnight he lay critically ill in London with bronchial pneumonia, but was reported gaining with the aid of blood transfusions...
...Princetonian cannot from the very nature of the case take a stand on this problem. It is too personal; it is something which every man must decide for himself. But we violate no trust, we betray no confidence, when we point out that according to Professors Dana G. Munro's and Raymond Sontag's "Middle Ages" university students in that period were required to sign a pledge that in case they failed a course they would not "use a dagger or knife on their examiner...