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...need is the man taking the oath, another to administer it, and a witness," answered Soekarno, and ordered the ceremony to proceed. Not one senior army officer showed up. Even the army band absented itself; Soekarno had to substitute the Djakarta Fire Brigade band...
...federal grand jury in Washington indicted Lattimore on seven counts of perjury, the key one for denying under oath that he was a Communist "sympathizer...
...Candidate Stevenson has steeled himself to face any G.O.P. standardbearer, even if his name should be Eisenhower. An early hint of Stevenson's resolute state of mind came last month when he repudiated the proposal of his ex-national chairman, Stephen Mitchell, to saddle the South with an oath of party loyalty at the 1956 national convention. The point was not lost on Southern leaders. To them, Stevenson seems less immoderately liberal than the visible alternatives: New York's Harriman, Michigan's Williams, Tennessee's Kefauver...
Scruffy Reality. As the Speaker began to administer to all members the oath of allegiance to the Queen, there was an outburst of cheers from the members' benches and applause from the visitors' gallery as a rosy, stout figure entered the chamber and took his place just below the gangway. Sir Winston Churchill-who once led all the rest-sat watching quietly as his former government colleagues trooped up ahead of him to take the oath. But when it came the turn of Labor's front bench, Clem Attlee made a gracious gesture. He crossed to Churchill...
Answering under oath, Sweezy asserted that he did not belong to the Communist party. But this answer did not satisfy Wyman, and he asked Sweezy two more questions; did he belong to the Progressive Party, and what were the contents of the speech he planned to deliver at the University...