Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expense accounts at the same time that he was accusing FCC Chairman John Charles Doerfer of chiseling the Government on expanses. He had leaked secret subcommittee papers to newsmen even while denouncing subcommittee members for doing the same thing; under Schwartz's taunting, subcommittee members swore under oath, in one of history's silliest congressional scenes, that they had not leaked a confidential memo to Columnist Drew Pearson. What finally did it was a weekend press conference at which Lawyer Schwartz accused the subcommittee of trying to "whitewash" his investigations...
When the Broyles oath law was passed in Illinois in 1955, we predicted that it would "catch" no subversives and serve only to harass people of conscience. The plight of ex-janitor Hjalmar Andersson is only one evidence of this. We look to the day when the legislature will undo its 1955 handiwork...
Since our children and the influences that they are exposed to are important, we must look for ulterior motives in those who sympathize with a school employee who refuses to take Illinois' anti-Communist oath of allegiance to state and nation...
...Montana doctor who stated, "We're no more obligated to give service than is the grocer" [Dec. 30] should study the implications of his Hippocratic oath. The A.M.A. has the highest ethics of any profession. Such departure from these ethics and disregard of oath is good reason for-heaven forbid-socialized medicine...
...want you to stay in school." wrote one little girl. "You always meet us at the door." wrote another, "and are so joyful." But last week, his savings gone, 52-year-old Bachelor Andersson began looking for another job, still determined, foolishly or not, never to sign the oath. "Too many people say 'Let George do it,'" he explains, "even in matters involving defense of individual freedom. Someone has to be George." But being George is not easy. "The day goes fast," says Hjalmar Andersson quietly, "when all the children are around...