Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chinese Minister of Railways and Reconstruction. Without batting either of his eyes, Mr. Sun coolly asked legislative approval for a 50-year program of public works to cost the breath-taking sum of 12 billion 500 million dollars. Bold and ten times bold, this scheme would commit the fledgling, two-year-old Nationalist Government to pour out every year, for public works alone, a treasure half as large as the stupendous annual tribute which the Great Powers hope to wring from Germany in Reparations. China would spend $250,000,000 each year, while Germany must pay between...
...report: "However reprehensible it may be for this woman to marry the Indian for mercenary purposes and to procure the assistance of lawyers to aid her in becoming possessed of his property as his wife, it is not a crime nor is her procurement of assistance a conspiracy to commit a crime...
...thinking. The temperament which made his judgments so wise and so profound has been a factor in costing the world the light which he could have shed upon many problems. Publication so often entails a hardening of the point of view that one of his open mind hesitates to commit himself irrevocably for fear of the disservice he may do the subject...
...writer's "serenity" and "calmness," this epistle denied that the Episcopate or clergy had had any part in the recent "excesses" (dynamitings), and went on to announce that priests who obey the Government's decree requiring them to register their names and addresses (TIME, Feb. 25) "do not commit a sin ... by subjecting themselves to this humiliation . . . but if they do so it must be as a result of their own decision. . . . The government has promised not to abuse its knowledge of the priests' residences, but it must be remembered that there are elements in the Government, radical...
Within 24 hours editors of Mexican dailies who printed the Bishop's statement were threatened by officials with "energetic punishment" should they commit another such offense; and the Government released a press communique declaring that "in the fictitious, measured tone . . . of Seņor Miguel M. de la Mora who calls himself Bishop of San Luis Potosi . . . there prevails the spirit of frank rebellion...