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Rummage-Sales & Muddy Boots. At the first inauguration, in 1789 in New York City, someone forgot to provide a Bible for the. President's oath. George Washington had all but started to raise his right hand when a frantic messenger turned up with the Good Book (which he had found in a downtown tavern where the St. John's Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons used to hold its meetings...
Last week a federal grand jury in Washington, after sifting evidence presented by the FBI and Justice Department attorneys, indicted Lattimore. The grand jurors charged that he had willfully lied to the Senate Internal Security subcommittee when he said under oath that...
...Oklahoma legislature passed a law requiring all state employees to take a loyalty oath in which they had to pledge that they had not belonged-within five years of taking the oath-to any organization which the ILS. Attorney General called subversive or a Communist front. Seven teachers at Oklahoma A. & M. refused. When they were fired, they argued in court that this was a violation of the 14th Amendment, i.e., they had been deprived of property (their salaries) without "due process of law." Last week the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously upheld the teachers...
...astonishment, one of those accused was Mrs. Helen Russell, 55, wife of a railroad engineer and onetime Sunday-school teacher. As vice president of a local "civic association," Mrs. Russell had led agitation against admission of Negroes to Carver Village. According to the grand jury, she had lied under oath when she denied asking Ku Klux Klan assistance in her drive to prevent Negroes from moving into the housing development. She had perjured herself again, it was charged, when she denied acquaintance with four Klan officers. Sobbed Mrs. Russell last week: "I've never lied in my life...
...Mercy Bent. But there were satisfactions. Boy Scouts not only pledge themselves to perform a good deed daily but actually live up to their oath. If an old lady gets sick, they will appear at her door week after week as volunteer shoppers and errand boys ("The staying power of boys on mercy bent sometimes surprises me"). If a child is ill, they will drop in to play checkers or to deliver homemade jigsaw puzzles...