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Captain Richard T. Spofford, U.S.N., professor of Naval Sciences, will administer the Oath of Office...
...President James B. Conant as U.S. High Commissioner for Germany. Joe swung again at Ike's Ambassador-designate to Russia, Charles E. Bohlen. He battled away against such respected party leaders as Bob Taft, demanded that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles be called to testify under oath on the Bohlen nomination. Here, Joe got the first whiplash of defeat. This proposal, said Bob Taft in measured tones, is ''ridiculous." It was soon afterward that Joe cast his lot irrevocably against his own party. In a stinging statement he lumped Ike's first year in office...
...Hawley, a medium-posh Connecticut prep school, the thoughts of youth are wrong, wrong thoughts, and the masters are "worn and cynical far beyond their years." Pupils are not, as at nearby Hotchkiss, "under oath" to abstain from smoking; Hawley's "deadly droops" (a Hotchkiss epithet) are merely forbidden this pleasure. For characters like Baxter (an outcast because he arrived from the West Coast, of all places, in a brown suit and porkpie hat) and for McGough (who suffers the crippling handicap of being the headmaster's son), there is only one thing to do at Hawley-defeat...
...tracker who followed the path of the cows to the border. The second was a character witness for Jela. "He is an upright man who does not know how to lie," he said. "If he says the cows are his, they are his." Then came Mustafa himself. Swearing his oath on a Koran (printed in Israel), he told the court: "I know those cows as I know my children." Could he describe them, asked the court? Yes, said Mustafa, one had a very large udder, the other a twisted horn. The prosecutor and the judge looked at each other with...
From President Alvaro Obregón of Mexico they got a pledge: exemption from military service and oath taking, permission to educate their children as they wished and to conduct their economic affairs in their own way. From the vast Terrazas ranch in Chihuahua they bought more than 200,000 acres of land. In 1922, some 5,000 of the Canadian Mennonites arrived at the isolated railroad station of San Antonio de Arenales and set to work transforming the prairie. The job was not done easily. Water flowed into their wells from a, huge underground lake, but even with irrigation...