Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gerhart Eisler, in contempt of Congress for refusing to take an oath before the House Un-American Activities Committee, was sentenced to one year in jail, $1,000 fine...
...Received a report from its Labor Committee that a 1941 strike at the Allis-Chalmers plant near Milwaukee was called at the direction of the Communist party. The committee charged Harold Christoffel and Robert Buse, past & present presidents of the U.A.W. local, with falsely testifying while under oath, asked the Justice Department to prosecute them...
...state in a footnote [TIME, May 12] that only Presidents W. H. Harrison, Taylor and Buchanan took the oath of office after reaching...
Defense Attorney Tom Wofford objected strenuously. The statements, he claimed, might be legal evidence against their individual makers, but not against other defendants. The statements had not been made under oath; the defense charged that they had been obtained under duress...
Local 431 was established in 1935 as a protest against the Teachers Oath Bill which proposed to institute a rigid check of all educator's allegience to the Constitution. Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, was the leading figure in the early organization of the Teachers Union here...