Word: forsworn
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Once, on the Senate floor, Truman had brought blushes to the faces of other Senators by a violent attack on Milligan. Only a few weeks before Franklin Roosevelt's death he had tried to block Milligan's reappointment. Senator Harry Truman had never forsworn his allegiance to his old and disreputable boss, nor his grudge against Milligan. President Truman was the same...
...captain in World War I, Soldier Murphy is due to be paid as much as General Pershing. His Court salary is $20,000 a year, and will continue while he remains at Fort Benning. He has, however, forsworn the added pay of a lieutenant colonel. While in the Army Lieut. Colonel Justice Murphy will probably not be burdened by the routine and the chores of men who are not merely spending summer vacations in the Army—he can always return to the bench. (In his two years as a Justice, Soldier Murphy has handed down only 42 opinions.) However...
...Dorothy Christie parlayed a $25 secondhand evening wrap into a $22,500 fighter plane is one of the breeziest inspirations of World War II. The wrap, which, along with other finery and furbelows, Mrs. Christie had forsworn for the war's duration, was sold to an American friend last October. The $25 she got went to print cards that said: "Is your name Dorothy? If so, rally around and help buy a Spitfire for Britain."* The cards, in turn, went to every Dorothy in the Dominion that she and her friends could think...
...saying a great deal. . . ."Not Peace But a Sword" is Vincent Sheean's latest book, a history of Europe from March, 1938 to March 1939, It would be interesting to see what changes the book would undergo if Mr. Sheean were to rewrite it now that he has forsworn Soviet Russia once and for all. Nevertheless, a fine book by one of the most intelligent reporters of our day. . . . Nora waln's "Reaching for the Stars" is a superior account of one woman's reactions to the Nazi regime. Not passionate in its hatred, but one the less deeply moving...
Although British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had promised that recently inaugurated conscription measures would be applied in Northern Ireland only in time of national emergency, Mr. de Valera demanded that it be forsworn completely. Even the imperialist London Times observed editorially that this sort of fight was just "the kind which Irishmen love" and urged that it be settled "before it gives serious trouble." Result was that last week Mr. Chamberlain backed down completely, announced that as a "recognition of Northern Ireland's patriotism" recruits for the British Army there would be limited to a volunteer reserve tank unit...