Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lowest figure that could be attained without impairing efficiency. Declared Representative Clifton A. Woodrum of Virginia, member of the Committee: "We believe these reductions have been made . . . without seriously crippling any needed Government activity." Wielder of many an ice pack in the past, fleshy Clifton Woodrum has taken an oath, and made the rest of his sub-committee swear, not to let any bill get past the committee if its appropriation exceeds the President's budget estimate. Last week Congressman Woodrum outdid himself...
While Kansas City lost an old mayor, Philadelphia got a brand new one. On New Year's Day heavy-jawed ex-Judge Robert Eneas Lamberton stood in the hoary Academy of Music, where he scarcely ever goes because "I don't understand music," and took the oath of office...
...press was exasperated when after being allowed to watch the debarkation under oath to keep mum for 48 hours, it heard First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill broadcast, 36 hours before the press deadline: ". . . And I can also tell you that yesterday the leading division of the Canadian Army . . . disembarked safely and smoothly...