Word: assignment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hasty editors might, from the above record, assign to Nominee Curtis the credit for eliminating "baloney pictures" from the 1928 campaign. But no editor would do so who is a journalist before he is a partisan. Because, as a matter of fact- It seems indisputable that the underlying cause for this year's anti-baloney epidemic among politicians lies not in the politicians' honest hearts, but in the alert U. S. press, whose newsgatherers, observers, commentators and editors have spent many years trying to divest U. S. politics and politicos of the more obvious political shams and absurdities...
...Bank of America last week as the Bank of America National Association, under the wise & facile advice of Amadeo Peter Giannini, the command went forth that stockholders of Giannini's California Bank of Italy and of his National Bancitaly Corp. might purchase BA.NA. stocks, but might not trade or assign their rights to those new securities...
...Before the Chamber of Deputies, last week, was a bill based on the assumption that when certain French oil properties in Mosul are developed the Republic will be able to exist on its own oil. The new bill proposes to assign a "quota" to firms importing foreign oil, restricting them hereafter to a turnover not larger than their average annual import business during the three years prior...
...last Sunday afternoon, in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York, there took place a significant ceremony. Representatives of American sport, professional as well as amateur, marched to the high altar to hear Bishop Manning formally assign the "sports bay" in the new Cathedral...
...suggestions which, if adopted, will constitute a departure almost as notable in criminology as was the substitution of vaccine for leeches in the treatment of smallpox. Governor Smith proposed that the New York Crime Commission be empowered to: 1) Take away from judges the function of sentencing convicts. 2) Assign that function to a board of specialists-psychiatrists, crime students-whose salaries would be commensurate with the responsibility reposed in them. Governor Smith proposed $25,000 per annum each, the figure to which New York has just raised its chief executive's pay. Psychiatry has become a resort...