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...Having Taken an Oath." He was led out. On a lower floor a small army of newsmen, photographers and radiomen waited to hear the grand jury's decision. Hours later, the jurors emerged, filed into elevators which took them down to the courtroom of Judge John Clancy. Reporters were let in to hear the report...
Otherwise, young Hummon conducted the inauguration far more sedately than the midnight oath-taking 23 months ago, when he was sworn in by the legislature (to replace his late father) on the strength of 675 write-in votes. His tenure then had lasted 63 days, cut short by a decision of the seven-member Georgia Supreme Court that his "inauguration" was illegal. This time, the court was conspicuously absent from the ceremonies. House Speaker Fred Hand, who introduced all notables, sniggered an explanation: "Someone told me that the Supreme Court came in and found that their seats were filled...
Only twice since George Washington took his oath of office has the College deserted the Right side. In the 1850's the students left the temperate Whig Party, and throw themselves in with the zealous Republicans. Sla very was one issue which could make radicals of Harvard men, but when the G.O.P. began to drift down the conservative stream, the College followed. And in 1912 the Republican interests of the College were so divided between William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt '80, that the students, like the nation, picked a Democrat as Chief Executive...
Protests rolled in from C.I.O. President Philip Murray, who does not like Communists, and from U.E. President Albert J. Fitzgerald, who is a stooge for the Communist-line bosses of his union. Murray complained on the ground that the C.I.O. is testing the constitutionality of the non-Communist oath requirement far union officers, turned down by U.E. and U.P.W. chiefs. Fitzgerald denounced the order as "cheap political maneuvering...
...Murray, AEC Chairman David Lilienthal replied last week that refusal to take the oath was not the sole complaint; there was "a serious question" about loyalty. To Fitzgerald, Lilienthal said that AEC was ready to talk the issue over with U.E. leaders, but would demand "full and candid" statements on their past & present Communist affiliations, if any. At week's end, there was no answer from Fitzgerald. The blackball stood...