Word: oaths
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...made his statement under oath as a witness in the $2,000,000 libel suit brought by Senator Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin against Senator William Benton of Connecticut. McCarthy's attorney asked Smith if he thought there were Communists in the State Department...
...While his audience sat in stony silence, the General said: "I am in favor not of repealing, but of amending, the law." Later when he said that the law must be altered to prevent union-busting, and that employers as well as union leaders should take the non-Communist oath, he got cheers...
...Chicago, Moody and Soapy were in the truculent forefront of the disastrous, disingenuous attempt to bind the South with the loyalty oath (TIME, July 28). Behind them, egging them on, was Walter Reuther. Moody's performance for the cause was the most appalling of all, for in his arguments before the credentials committee he became so mixed up that his ally, New York's Franklin Roosevelt Jr., had to straighten him out-which is like being saved from drowning by a three-year...
...morocco-bound copybook, in which Jefferson, a deist, pasted the words of Jesus as clipped from Bible texts. ¶ President Truman's inauguration Bible, in which he noted in ink on the flyleaf: "There was much scurrying around to find this book on which to take the oath...
...liberal tabloid Daily News had acted properly in firing Rewriteman Vern Partlow, and in refusing to rehire Movie Reviewer Darr Smith. Both men had been named by former Communists testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee as their onetime fellow members. Both men had refused to say under oath if they were, or had been Communists. The News's Executive Editor Lee F. Payne fired Partlow and struck Darr Smith's name off a rehiring list...