Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stripe, wearing a pair of heavy shell-rimmed glasses, sauntered jauntily up to the witness stand. As the applause quickened, he turned, bowing and smiling to his expectant audience, maneuvering his profile skillfully in the fusillade of exploding flashbulbs. With forefinger dramatically outstretched, he raised his hand for the oath. To the first, identifying question he replied: "Motion picture actor-I hope...
...National Labor Relations Board reversed its general counsel, Robert N. Denham, last week and ruled that top officers of the A.F.L. and the C.I.O. would not have to sign the anti-Communist oath of the Taft-Hartley...
Except for its timing, the ruling was not unexpected. It came on the second day of the American Federation of Labor's convention in San Francisco, and it upset John L. Lewis' plan to make defiance of the oath his personal battle cry. In Cincinnati, Senator Robert A. Taft said that the Board's ruling was "certainly not in conflict with the intention of Congress...
...Clyde B. Aitchison of the .Interstate Commerce Commission wryly suggested that witnesses before the commission ought to take the following oath: "I swear that what I am about to read has been faithfully and truthfully prepared for me by my attorneys...
...shoulders. (And thus, for the first time since 1913, the U.S. had a Cabinet of only nine members.) Secretary of the Navy John L. Sullivan and Secretary of the Air Force W. Stuart Symington were also sworn in (Secretary of the Army Kenneth Royall had taken the oath nine weeks ago). Then Symington and Royall announced that they had agreed on more than 200 re-bracketings in plans to separate the Air Porce from the Army...