Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should be understood that participation at Chicago does not commit any group to join any national student union which subsequently might be established. Our role now is only aid in the formation of the organiziation. In the light, however of the democratic basis of the conference and the mandate which will be laid down for the constitutional committee--a mandate which will be wrought by all delleagtes--this college will probably find it to its advantage to join...
...across-the-board cut, which is contrary to New Deal theories of graduated ("soak the rich") taxation. But then there were few Republican recommendations which a New Dealer would cheer. Minnesota's Republican Congressman Walter H. Judd, no New Dealer, later denied the right of the conferees to commit the whole party to such action; his was a still, small voice. The Republican bosses claimed that the tax cut could be safely made if the federal budget were cut. They even suggested that revenues would still be big enough to enable them to chip a little...
...doing it because we are afraid to commit the Crimson to any proposition more controversial than the desirability of a happy outcome of the Yale game...
...State Department has not even begun to work out a blueprint on which it can ask Congress for the necessary authority to commit U.S. resources. The only U.S. resources now available are a few hundred millions in the War Department appropriation to provide relief in the U.S. zone this year...
Divorce. The present Episcopalian canon on divorce is based on Christ's saying, But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery. -Matthew 5:32. The only divorced person who may ever be remarried with the Church's blessing is the innocent party in a divorce granted on grounds of adultery. The Convention's 17-man Joint Commission on Holy Matrimony recommended that bishops should be allowed discretion to permit church marriages...