Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Contrary to the CRIMSON report, the Committee cannot commit itself in advance to cover any University bills defaulted because of charity donations. We have never claimed this power...
Britain saw in the seeming Franco-German contradiction hope of a workable plan which would involve Britain more surely than EDC (through Britain's role as a Brussels partner) and also commit the U.S. more emphatically (through the NATO all-for-one agreement). Mendès-France seemed to be insisting on controls unacceptable to Germany. Adenauer's demands for all-at-once concessions were unacceptable to an aroused France. But neither, in Anthony Eden's view, had closed the door. He calculated optimistically-but perhaps not too much so-that theirs were bargaining terms, not final...
Love from Harry. There was no genuine business before the national commit tee. The occasion was just an excuse to give the fall campaign a rousing sendoff, to hold informal clinics on the health of the party, and to coach freshmen candidates in the fine art of campaigning. Harry Truman, the party's oracle of optimism, was unable to attend the meeting (his doctor has ordered him not to do any politicking this fall). But Harry Truman thumped his first tom-tom, with a nostalgic give-em-hell letter to Democratic Chairman Steve Mitchell...
...Friends in the Game." The commit tee was curious about the help that Grace & Grace had given loan applicants. A Pelham, N.Y. builder named Warren Schaller who applied for a loan guarantee in 1949 waited six months for FHA approval. The FHA granted the guarantee, said Schaller, two months after he hired Grace & Grace on the advice of "friends in the game." But Grace said the sequence of events had no significance ; the handling of the application was routine. The committee cited another builder whose application for a $325,000 guarantee had been turned down by the FHA. When Grace...
...think they've killed Marilyn." In seven minutes Houk reached Sheppard's house. The young doctor was shaken and bloody. His wife, Marilyn, 31, four months pregnant, was dead. Last week Dr. Sheppard was indicted for the murder. "I am not guilty," he insisted. "How could I commit such a terrible and revolting crime...