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...Swarthmore, with a Ph.D. from California, Kerr joined the faculty in 1945 as head of the Institute of Industrial Relations. He quickly became one of the state's top labor arbiters, held a long string of Government posts. During the university's bitter battle over the loyalty oath (TIME, June 27, 1949 et seq.), he proved himself every inch the mediator. As a member of the faculty committee on privilege and tenure, he was largely responsible for protecting facultymen from unfair persecution and dismissal, but he went about his job in so levelheaded a manner that...
...year these men lived under the guidance of Father Benson, the Vicar of Cowley. Then, on the Feast of St. John the Evangelist in 1866, Father Grafton and Father Prescott, American priests, Father O'Neill, a master of Eton, and Father Benson took the following oath in each other's presence...
BRISK, somber-eyed little (5 ft. 1 in., 140 Ibs.) Ronald Davies, North Dakota lawyer, took his oath as a U.S. District Judge in Fargo on Aug. 16, 1955, then turned to well-wishers with one of the shortest induction speeches on record: "I hope that I will have the courage to meet and discharge the responsibilities of my office." Last week, plucked 870 miles from Fargo and set down in Little Rock by the impersonal workings of justice, Ronald Davies fulfilled his hopes...
...speech whistle-stopping "Report to the People of California." The report ranged from a terse analysis of world affairs (Russia, explained Knowland, "attacked Poland from the rear while she had her back against the wall") to a reminder that Senate Minority Leader Knowland had administered the vice-presidential oath to California's own Dick Nixon, and was a confidant of the President's. But Knowland's sharpest comments were saved for local issues on which he ' could bang away at Goodwin Knight, e.g. California's critical water shortage, the high state budget...
...through the palm-leaf walls of village huts. Recently the late Ba Cut's mother reportedly joined the Devil King, bringing with her several hundred of Ba Cut's old followers. The Devil King ordered them to let their beards grow down to their navels, administered an oath during which the newcomers drank one another's blood mixed with rice wine. The peasants' terror increased when red rains (caused by dust particles in the atmosphere) fell in their villages, told each other frantically that the end of the world was coming and that only the Devil...