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...Undone Oath. Refusing to be provoked by Communist taunts, the police acted cautiously. Commissioner Kurt Kessi called the legation on the telephone, asked to be admitted with an interpreter. Kessi found three tall young men in the legation. For two hours he spoke to the leader, trying to get him to surrender. "I emphasized that we would use the maximum force to capture them," he said. "I made no impression...
There was silence. The Bhil men sat cross-legged and impassive; the Bhil women stared at the odhnis through the eyeholes in their cloaks. For a while nothing happened. Then one woman rose, slowly advanced and uncovered her face, her eyes glued to the wonderful cloth. "Take the oath, sister," said Tantia, fingering an odhni. She hesitated only a moment. Almost before he knew it, Tantia had given away 460 odhnis (value...
...bills would not only compel colleges to expel Communists and Communist sympathizers from their teaching staffs, but would also amend the State's Teacher Loyalty Oath. The amended Oath would force all teachers to swear they are not, nor ever have been, members of the Communist Party...
...drawled: "I forgot it was one of those longtail jobs. Just every four years is all I'm used to wearing it." South Carolina. With no parade, ball or fanfare, George Bell Timmerman Jr., 42, was sworn in as governor by his father, a federal judge. His oath of office included a promise that he would not fight a duel while in office. He replaced aging (75) Jimmy Byrnes, formerly governor, Secretary of State, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Director of War Mobilization and U.S. Senator. Timmerman, who served eight years as lieutenant governor, inherits a cool...
...squads of eight, the Senators and Senators-elect marched solemnly down the center aisle into the well of the Senate-each newcomer escorted by an incumbent. Four at a time, the new Senators faced the rostrum and repeated the oath after Vice President Nixon. Then they signed the roster on the clerk's desk and went to their desks...