Word: naming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hadn't Chambers falsified an application for a passport in 1935, signing the name of David Breen? Chambers admitted that he had. What was Chambers' conception of an oath? "I had a Communist's conception of an oath. That it had no binding force on a Communist." Chambers admitted that as a Communist courier he had been "in fact a traitor." Cross went into his more recent, non-Communist past. Chambers admitted that he had lied when he first told a grand jury that he knew of no espionage activities...
...cash Christmas gifts for refugees. A Christian Democrat spokesman pointed out that this was a purely political bill designed to win votes, and that the government had no money to spare for the bonus proposal. But when the Socialists forced an open roll-call vote and Adenauer's name was called as the first on the alphabetical list, the Chancellor did not dare oppose the bill. He rose and weakly voted "/a." The other Christian Democrat deputies followed suit...
...outraged taxpayers complained of being undercharged and hence deprived of a listing among the aristocracy of the higher brackets. Others, equally outraged, swore that they had never made that kind of money in their lives. One distressed soul had even quietly tried to bribe Editor Blomberg into leaving his name out of the register. If his wife learned his real income, pleaded the unhappy taxpayer, it would cost him at least a new mink coat...
...rolling hills were forested, and the promise of water was everywhere. The Norrises sent for their family. In the next six months, some 80 other American families joined them, and by 1894, the area was so thoroughly American that paulistas took to calling it Villa Americana, a name which the state of Sao Paulo later made official...
...Yale has not eliminated the Big Three," Tighe said. He added that he hoped it would continue "in fact as well as name, because it is a pleasant tradition." Tighe said he knew nothing about the Penn system of State Scholarships. "If we had to compete against proselyting, we just wouldn't compete...