Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, at 9:45 a.m., Jimmy Forrestal gave an aide an order: "Get the Chief Justice down here at noon. I want to take the oath." It took a lot of scurrying to round up the big Army & Navy brass, four Cabinet members and four Senators; they and Chief Justice Fred Vinson made it by a couple of minutes before noon. Somebody remembered that a Bible would be needed; there wasn't one in Forrestal's office. An aide hurried off and scrounged one. At 12:07 p.m., James Vincent Forrestal, in grey flannel suit and soft...
When the council's meeting broke up, John Lewis strode off alone. His vote was enough in itself to nullify the other members' willingness to take the oath. Under the strict interpretation of the NLRB's General Counsel Robert Denham, every top officer must sign or no affiliated union may come before the NLRB. (This week Dan Tobin signed the affidavit anyway, sent his lawyer to Washington to contend that the Teamsters should be allowed to use the NLRB...
Besides Marshall, two other political figures pushed into the limelight when James V. Forrestal took the oath as the nation's first Secretary of Defense and Harold E. Stassen, open candidate for the '48 Republican presidential nomination, called on President Truman for immediate action on food shortages and aid to Europe...
Twitchy & Bouncy. In 1932, Jackie Smith, then 16, sat in Los Angeles' Cocoanut Grove gaping at Bing Crosby and the Rhythm Boys. Then & there he swore an oath: "I'm going to make it my life's work to get on that stage." Within three months, Jack's life's work was completed, when he and two other high-school kids were signed to sing at the Grove. Twelve years later, Jack was still a promising young crooner. Last week his twitchy, bouncy tenor was being gargled for its third consecutive year...
...fourth time in 17 years, Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo took the oath of office as President of the Dominican Republic. (He had copped last May's rigged election, with 93% of the votes.) Delegates of 40 nations, on hand for the show at the Senate Palace, heard the Dictator blandly promise to "maintain the same system of democratic order followed heretofore." For the long-hatching plot of Dominican exiles to overthrow him (TIME, Aug. 11, 18) Trujillo had a characteristic answer. Halfway through his oration he paused, barked: "Whoever tries to disturb the peace will find that...