Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Speaker Sam Rayburn -the two-year job of moving the Capitol's east front 32½ feet forward-was a gleaming reality (although the new inte rior space will be useless until another $3,000,000 is sunk in remodeling). The outdoor platform where Kennedy will take the oath of office was in readiness, facing a jungle gym of stands for the press (more than 600 reporters-a record -have applied for credentials, including 75 foreign correspondents from as far away as Viet Nam, Malta and Indonesia...
...Furcolo's office at the Governor's request to pick up his qualification papers, he was kept waiting for 2½ hours. Then a secretary told him that the Governor was ill at home ("I understand perfectly," said Smith); whereupon two women commissioning officers administered the oath of office. Next day Furcolo was back at work...
...many legal chores for the labor movement have paid him handsomely: Goldberg makes more than $100,000 a year, keeps an interest in his Chicago law firm, owns part of a Caribbean hotel chain. Before he takes the oath of office, though, he plans to drop all of his labor affiliations, just as business executives sell their stocks on entering the Cabinet. In addition, he promises never to return to the labor field after his Government service...
Walter Edward Hoffman, 53, Federal District Court of Eastern Virginia. When he took his oath of judicial office six years ago, muscular, mild-mannered "Beef" Hoffman turned to his Methodist pastor and asked for a prayer. "This procedure may be a bit unusual," he remarked, "but it is never out of place." A Republican, Hoffman was born in New Jersey, but spent his long career as a trial lawyer in Virginia. His major legal monument is a series of important decisions in 1957 and 1958 that led to token integration of Norfolk's public schools. With unfailing sympathetic words...
When John Kennedy takes his oath of office next January, he may be the 14th U.S. President* to win election without a popular vote majority. At week's end, with more than 67 million votes counted (a U.S. record), Kennedy held a 279,000 lead over Richard Nixon-and the margin was dropping steadily. Still to be counted were at least 400,000 absentee ballots in eleven states. The electoral vote (269 needed to win) stood at Kennedy 332, Nixon 191 and 14 unpledged. The scorecard according to Associated Press figures (with Kennedy electoral votes...