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...Nazis in his native Poland before he es caped to the U.S., he had served a hitch in Japan for his adopted country. He was an Air Force corporal stationed at Hickam Field, Honolulu when he came up before Federal Judge J. Frank McLaughlin to take the official oath and become an American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God's Country | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

...hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty . . . that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America . . . and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion ..." But here Corporal Plywacki boggled. The next words were "So help me God." Wladyslaw Plywacki explained that he was an atheist, therefore could not in honesty use those words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God's Country | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

...naturalization ceremony in Los Angeles, Vienna-born Cinemactress Hedy Lamarr, 38, took her oath of allegiance, said she was "pleased and delighted" to become a U.S. citizen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 20, 1953 | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

Associate professor of Physics Wendell H. Furry will tell the House Un-American Activities Committee today that he has not been a Communist for the last two years. Until today, Furry has refused to answer questions about Communist party membership under oath...

Author: By Milton S. Gwirtzman, | Title: Furry Will Tell Probers He Is Not a Communist | 4/16/1953 | See Source »

With the Corporation deliberating his fate on the Faculty, Furry is appearing at his own request to "supplement his testimony." He will also be asked if he knows of any Communist activity at the University now, another question he has declined to answer under oath...

Author: By Milton S. Gwirtzman, | Title: Furry Will Tell Probers He Is Not a Communist | 4/16/1953 | See Source »

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