Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...absence of clothes makes the heart of the Five-Cent Public grow warmer and that the catering to such people in such a way is probably not uncommon in the lower journalistic circles, I must state that I was disagreeably surprised and shocked to discover that the CRIMSON would commit a similar breach of newspaper ethics. The writer of your editorial, I am forced to assume, willfully concealed all knowledge of my article as submitted and concealed it in order to score in a manner which, even in terms of the printed article, was somewhat sophistical. A copy...
...general tax cut. Mr. Mellon wants the surplus to be credited to income taxes payable in 1927. Said he: "With only a few months' test of the Revenue Act of 1926, common sense requires that we do not act precipitately. . . . The necessity that we do not commit our Government to an unsound fiscal policy for the future should not prevent the Government treating its taxpayers fairly in any particular year in which Government revenues are overabundant. I believe in debt reduction along the program settled after the War, but I do not believe in the payment of a public...
...might have seemed appropriate. The coffin contained instead a handsome disemboweling knife beautifully encased in a white leather scabbard and resting on a ceremonial tray. By this expensive present the Kamiya Keiseisha (Opposition Party) pointedly conveyed to the Premier their opinion that he is a perjurer and ought to commit harakiri...
...Mirror itself, purposely, Payne said, let the story die down a little on July 27 and 28. In the masthead of the paper this question was published: 'Can Members, of a Wealthy Family in New Jersey Commit a Crime and Get Away with...
...corrupt police force, Canton's civic officials. Detectives swarmed to Canton. Newspapers all over Ohio succeeded in confusing Justice in its course by their frantic efforts to beat one another to the mystery's solution. Evidence pointed to the hiring of underworld thugs, by "higher-ups" in Canton to commit the murder. One Louis Mazer, Canton bootlegger and an overlord of the Canton "jungle" was arrested. Also one Ben Rudner, hardware dealer of nearby Massillon, Ohio. But the key man of the mystery was missing, Patrick Eugene McDermott, ex-convict, member of a family of mine-laborers in Nanty...