Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Efforts to promulgate banking regulations under the banking code brought a blow-up from General Johnson, when depositors howled against proposed service charges. Cried he: "If the banks want to commit suicide nobody is going to worry much about it ... but I am interested in protecting the public...
...them further fees, blazing: "As it was conducted in 1929 the investment trust was nothing but a glorified gambling institution. . . ." ¶ Samuel Insull Jr. and six other past or present directors of Northern Indiana Public Service Co. were indicted in Crown Point, Ind. for embezzlement, larceny and conspiracy to commit a felony. The indictments were not divulged, but it was understood that Insull Jr. and his associates were charged with looting Northern Indiana's treasury to shore up the crumbling walls of the Insull holding companies. This particular Insull echo resulted from the trial of Howard Duncan, onetime assistant...
...steel company able to keep its plants running profitably throughout the dark days. Its presiding genius is Ernest Tener Weir who also chairmans subsidiary Weirton Steel of Weirton, W. Va. Last week white-crested Founder Weir got a sizzling telegram from NRAdministrator Johnson: ''You are about to commit a deliberate violation of Federal laws and ... if you do so, I shall request the Attorney General to proceed against you immediately." Founder Weir proceeded to commit the "violation," then settled down in his Pittsburgh home to read (for the lost time, he said) that sentimental masterpiece, David Copperfield. Would...
...GIVES TRUE ONE OF WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED STOP WAS NEVER ORDERED ARRESTED STOP THERE WAS NO BALCONY AND I WAS IN A ROOM SEVEN STORIES FROM THE GROUND WITH AN IRON RAILING EXTENDING TO MY CHEST HEIGHT STOP YOUR LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE ACCEPTED HEARSAY EVIDENCE WHEN HE WIRED YOU I COMMITTED A NUISANCE STOP I WAS CLOTHED HAD NO BLANKET AROUND ME AND DID NOT COMMIT ANY NUISANCE EXCEPT YELL TO THE CROWD BELOW IN A CHIDING MANNER STOP...
...general sentiment among the departments was about evenly divided, eleven departmental chairmen consented, at the Princetonian's request, to sound out the opinion of the students in their respective courses and to subject the matter of printed lecture notes to discussion within their departments. Their agreement did not commit these men to the adoption of the proposed innovation but merely insured for it serious departmental consideration, the only step that can be taken from without the departments themselves...