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...Trade Unions). Strongly antiCommunist, Meany became heir apparent to Green in 1947 after he balked John L. Lewis' try for a seat on the A.F.L. Executive Council by hammering at Lewis' opposition to the Taft-Hartley law provision requiring labor leaders to take a non-Communist oath. In one of the few public squelches Lewis has ever suffered, Meany charged that the mineworkers' boss had "made a fellowship" with "all the . . . stinking American-haters who love Moscow...
...week to witness the inaugural ceremonies of a new President. The leaders of Mexico and the envoys of 57 foreign governments, in braid-crusted uniforms or solemn full dress, watched as a gaunt man in a plain black suit stepped forth. Adolfo Ruiz Cortines had come to take his oath as President...
...Acheson did most of the talking. A joint press statement reported that Truman and Eisenhower had "worked out a framework of liaison and exchange of information," but made clear that "General Eisenhower has not been asked to assume any of the responsibilities of the presidency until he takes the oath of office." Before Ike left, Harry Truman handed him three loose-leaf volumes summarizing U.S. policies through the world, and top-secret plans in case of all-out Communist attack on Korea, Yugoslavia or Iran...
...uniform of a naval commander.* He guided Elizabeth to a spot just before her throne and stepped down one step to the left to his own gilded chair of state. "My Lords," said Elizabeth, "pray be seated." Then, because she was not yet a crowned Queen, Elizabeth repeated her oath of accession and her promise to "secure the Protestant succession...
Chaim Weizmann of Motol. Russia, son of Osher the timber merchant and Rachel, stood before the Knesset in Jerusalem, taking the oath of office as Israel's first President in 2,000 years. In pain, his eyes seeing dimly through cataracts, he stumbled over the biblical phraseology in his Hebrew address, interjected: "I can't go on." But go on he did, to the end of the address and for almost four lonely and physically painful years afterward. One morning last week, a few days before his 78th birthday, his heart stopped, and Chaim Weizmann, the man, died...