Word: swearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mary Garden, 72, whose grand-operatic stripteasing in Salome and hipslinging in Thais set standards that Met music lovers still swear by, was coming out of retirement in her native Scotland. She would make a U.S. lecture tour next fall for the National Arts Foundation...
Although Representative Sullivan considers his measure necessary, there is no concrete evidence of sedition in the educational institutions of Massachusetts. The Teachers' Oath Law of 1935 requires all teachers in the state to swear that they will uphold the United States Constitution. Is only function has been to "expose" three instructors who refused to sign as a matter of principals. The Smith Act, making it a crime to advocate forcible overthrow of the U.S. government, has not brought a single conviction in this state since its passage by Congress in 1940. Only one man has ever been convicted under...
...procedure-they got a surprise. Last week, Harry S. Toy, the squat, eagle-beaked police commissioner who has talked darkly about a "Red revolution in Michigan," said that, to get a press card, every reporter would have to 1) fill out a form listing his press experience, and 2) swear that he was not a member of "any organization affiliated with the Communist Party or Communism...
...Humphrey told Assistant Simms: "Be sure to brief me on protocol. I'm liable to start sliding down the bannisters." In the Senate chamber, he spotted his family sitting in the gallery, just to the right of the clock. When it came time for Senator Arthur Vandenberg to swear in Humphrey, 14th in line, Humphrey's father leaned forward, dabbed his eyes with a handkerchief. "He's going to be a great Senator," the father said afterward. "Maybe he's going to be something else...
...fast 22-day climb, led by the oil stocks, Dow-Jones industrial averages went from 180.28 to 191.06, and the rail averages went from 57.97 to 62.27. Both of them "broke through" their previous high marks, established in 1947. For the large number of investors who swear by the Dow Theory, the "breakthrough" meant that the bear market was finally over, the bull market had arrived...