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...Arabs & Oaths. He still has problems, scores of them, nearly all deriving from the scarcity of hours in the day. No sooner does he leave his kitchen table in the morning and pass through the Moorish lobby of his apartment building than he is besieged by a horde of political suppliants who have been crouched there like Arab beggars since daybreak. No sooner does he arrive at his office as Secretary of State than in troops a platoon of prospective cosmetology board officials, ready to have De Sapio administer the oath in which, as required by law, they swear...
...with provisions that were not wise." Of the remaining nine, he said, four unpassed bills were "absolutely vital": school construction, the health bill, the highway program and the water-resources bill. He planned, said Ike, to push these measures very emphatically as soon as Congress reconvenes. ¶Administered the oath of office to Harold E. Stassen as United States Deputy Representative on the United Nations Disarmament Commission. It was Stassen's fourth oath-taking since the Eisenhower Administration took office (Mutual Security Administrator, F.O.A. Administrator, Special Assistant to the President for disarmament): "It seems I am always swearing...
...Texas, Ancient and Accepted Order of Freemasonry, and a prominent and popular figure in the state government at Austin. Texas' land commissioner for 16 years, he was re-elected for the eighth time last year, but disqualified himself and astonished his friends when he refused to take the oath of office. Last week in a courtroom in Austin, Bascom Giles was convicted as an accomplice to the theft of $6,800 and sentenced to three years in the penitentiary...
Since 1953, the 1,250,000 tenants of federal housing projects have been required to sign oaths of nonmembership in subversive organizations. The Congress attached this requirement to a federal housing appropriations bill, on the ground that taxpayers' dollars should not provide roofs for Communists or their friends. Some tenants, in Washington, Baltimore and New York, refused to sign the oath and were threatened with eviction. Among them were Doris and John Rudder, who occupy a two-bedroom apartment in Washington's Lincoln Heights project...
...dentists under their special draft act from Oct. 1, 1950 to Feb. 1, 1955. But 28 physicians and 13 dentists were inducted as privates because they refused to apply for commissions, as were 20 physicians and eleven dentists ruled ineligible; e.g., because they refused to take a loyalty oath...