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Nieman Fellow John Davies never could stomach working with women reporters. Even though he married one, he took a solemn oath that he would never have anything to do with them during working hours. The one time he broke this vow was on a day that shells were whistling over his head while his landing boat was pulling into the Inchon beachhead, and a sudden swerve sent a pretty young columnist flying into his lap. The somewhat embarrassed Davies recovered his equilibrium, however, and went on to become one of the top war correspondents, covering the Pacific campaign...
...launched a drive against loyalty oaths in December 1949, when it attacked the "stool pigeon" clause in the oath required of all Navy men, including Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps members. The clause, compelling Navy men to name all persons connected with groups listed as subversive by the Justice Department, was called a "menace to American freedom and a special threat to academic freedom...
Gootenberg sent copies of the protest to Congressmen and several national organizations. The AVC's action was "felt round the world", and in March the Navy Department struck the clause out of the oath. A Navy official claimed that agitation at Harvard was the principal reason for removal of the 15-word clause...
Found fit for limited service, Billings told the Army officials his intentions and was promptly arrested and informed that they would induct him forcibly by simply reading the oath in his presentce. After hearing. "Do you, Arthur Goodwyn Billings, solemnly swear" and so on, he replied emphatically. "I do not, I refuse to take this oath." An officer reported. "That doesn't make any difference, you're in the Army...
...shot purchasing agent for the Air Force, was released from the federal penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa. After serving 318 days of a one-year sentence for $61,400 income tax evasion, plus 30 days more for failure to pay the $15,000 fine, he signed a pauper's oath and promised to give to the Government, toward payment of the fine, a percentage of any future money he may earn...