Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...person in the United States," he argued, "need fear our laws against burglary unless he is a burglar or is getting ready to commit burglary. By the same token, no state need fear this treaty unless it is planning an aggressive act or has aggressive designs in its heart...
...billion, there is a shadow budget of at least $11 billion more which Congress will be asked to approve, mostly as authorizations for Fair Deal measures. The eleven extra billion are really only a starter: some of the spending plans call for a small beginning but would commit the Government to huge new annual expenditures...
...University of Chicago's Robert M. Hutchins could see nothing but harm coming from this "cloak-and-stiletto work . . . [It] will not merely mean that many persons will suffer for acts that they did not commit, or for acts that were legal when committed, or for no acts at all. Far worse is the end result, which will be that critics, even of the mildest sort, will be frightened into silence . . ." Loyalty oaths for teachers are utterly useless, said Hutchins, "for teachers who are disloyal will certainly be dishonest; they will not shrink from a little perjury...
...expect reasonable men to think of participation in open and legal meetings on public subjects as the equivalent of secret plotting to commit crime, merely because Communists or "fellow travelers" take part in such meetings. On this line of reasoning, literally thousands of reputable citizens would have offended. By no possibility could Harvard adopt a view which, to put it mildly, is so extreme. To do so would, I believe, call for conclusions which offend common sense and for efforts at repression that would be out of place anywhere in our country and are inconceivable at Harvard...
Louis Johnson, the man who had never before known a major setback, poured out his hurt and humiliation in a note of resignation to his "Dear Mr. President." Then he went back to Clarksburg to brood on man's infidelity to man-and to commit his thoughts to paper in a book which still rests in the Johnson safe-deposit...