Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such self-discrediting and sorry stuff is worth $16,000, perhaps it is also good business to obtain it by bribery, "planting" of agents in the bureaus of a foreign state, and inciting these agents to commit burglary. Last week Hearstling subordinates testified that such were substantially the methods used to obtain the purported "original documents...
...about them. . . . It is pointed out that the Spanish of the documents is faulty, that the Hearst forces changed the date of one dispatch three times in three consecutive editions, and that no officials of any government which disburses secret funds for corrupt purposes are so stupid as to commit anything to paper. . . . The facts are set forth here for purposes of historical record...
President Hopkins own college refused to give his plan a try out and other Eastern colleges, though lending a polite ear, also declined to commit themselves. It has thus remained for the pioneer West to assume the burden of reform. Michigan, press reports state, will put the system into effect only gradually, and is evidently receiving little encouragement from the other Western colleges...
...they can capture the lone Farm-Laborite and hold the "radicals" in line, the Republicans will be able to do no more than tie them opponents and to pass any legislation they must count upon the Vice-President, who as a possible Presidential candidate will be reluctant to commit himself on any important issue...
...because we are not always ready to commit suicide and prefer to leave the solution of our problems to the levelling hand of Destiny...