Word: swear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Davis, also President of the Daily Worker, devoted most of his speech to a discussion of a bill recently introduced by the Thomas Un-American Committee into Congress. This measure would require members of Communist "front" and political organizations to swear their allegiance to this nation, or else suffer heavy fines and imprisonment...
...vote, it also decided that the Taft-Hartley law was within the Constitution in requiring that, before a union can take a case to the National Labor Relations Board, its officers must swear that they are not Communists. The majority held that Congress has the right to prescribe qualifications for those who ask the "privilege" of acting for workers as their exclusive bargaining agents. For good and obvious reasons, said the court, Congress had decided that Communists do not qualify...
Along with the jumbo, they talked of the surrounding dark-panelled walls and the many-colored candle-holders; and soon the O.G. was known round the world. Patrons would swear it outdated Harvard Hall and few were doubted; but actually the Grille hit the Square in 1939, moving up from a North Cambridge location. Harvard men found it right away and Cambridge Summer Theatre stars began to go over after the shows, leaving tips on the tables and their pictures over the bar. Proud of its exotic liqueur collection from 52 countries, the prewar O.G. would guarantee a free drink...
...Teachers' Oath Law requires instructors to swear to support the constitution of the United States...
Romeo, his voice shaky with emotion, breathed into the microphone: "By yawnder blessed moon I swear. . . ." What was Milton Berle doing under that balcony? He was acting Romeo and Juliet. And it was no gag. The new show, Play It Straight (on Manhattan's WNEW), would give radio's funnymen a chance to indulge their traditional and unsinkable ambition to play Hamlet-or any other long-faced role they fancied...