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...black. Eight seated themselves in the black leather chairs at the long mahogany bench; the ninth went with the clerk of the court to a desk beside the bench. After a brief opening ceremony, Clerk Harold B. Willey turned to the man at his side and administered an oath: "I, Earl Warren, do solemnly swear that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich...
...Attended the swearing-in as his liaison man with Congress of I. Jack Martin, onetime Taft aide. Grinned Ike: "Be prepared for a good long oath, because Justice Burton really gives you the works...
...knew he was not goin to use the experience he gains to harm the legal profession; we would then be the first to urge he not be isolated from influence merely because of his political views. But we cannot believe this, for he will not deny it under oath. Because of this, the risk is substantial. And the success and reputation of the Law Review is more important than that of Lubell or any other student...
...think it is one of the terrible examples of what the agencies are doing, to go to an institution, of all institutions Harvard, to find out a working model of Soviet thinking when they have criticized Congress for trying to get really at the roots of the thing under oath as to how a communist thinks...
...Huggins, 70, was sworn in last week as Prime Minister of British Central Africa, the brand-new federation of the British protectorates of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland and the self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia. Sir Godfrey adjusted his spectacles, tuned in his hearing aid and almost shouted his oath of allegiance to the Crown. For Sir Godfrey, a lively and sure-handed surgeon with a flair for colonial politics, a 30-year dream had come true...