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...Elizabethan library where Samuel Seabury plotted Tammany's destruction some three years ago, last week swart little Fiorello Enrico LaGuardia faced a New York Supreme Court Justice reading him an oath of office. "I do so solemnly swear,'' snapped Mr. LaGuardia, thereupon turning and kissing the plain earnest woman who was once his secretary, is now his wife. "Now we have a Mayor of New York!" exclaimed delighted Inquisitor Seabury, who had whipped together the Fusion Party which turned bumbling Mayor John Patrick O'Brien out of office, turned Tammany upside down. To celebrate this deed...
...able to learn he has made a perfect record. He has upheld the dignity of the judicial branch of the country in the most hectic year in American politics. He has not blurted. Sagaciously he has made no appearance to the public outside the administering of oath of office to President Roosevelt, which was his duty. And finally he has in my opinion cooperated with the present administration by weighing the element of time against its perpetual offspring -change. C. H. McWlLLIAMS Wilmington. Ohio Sirs...
...Group's banks, showing that none of them had any bills payable at the close of 1930. "Was that a fact." demanded Mr. Couzens, "that your banks were out of debt?" Mr. Lord: Except to the depositors. Mr. Couzens: I want to remind you that you are under oath. I want to know whether you had any information outside of the published statements as to whether or not any of these 23 units had bills pay able. . . . Mr. Lord: If that statement was made it was made in good faith. Promptly Mr. Pecora proceeded to pro duce evidence...
...WINDING STAIR AND OTHER POEMS-William Butler Yeats - Macmillan ($2.50). If a Dublin Irishman in the course of conversation raises his right hand as if to take an oath, his wise friends know that he is about to quote from William Butler Yeats. Only Irishman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Poet Yeats is Erin's uncrowned laureate as well as its most respected living writer. But even poets grow old. Though these latest poems may well seem more satisfactory to him than the wilder mystical verse of his youth, only devoted friends and a few new admirers...
Lynching is murder in its most brutal form. You, who are under oath to uphold the law, have given this worst of crimes your complete sanction. You cannot expect such men as Holmes and Thurmond to obey the law if the governor of the state of California does...